A brief exchange between the newly elected Pope Leo XIV and a journalist has gone viral, with many calling it the most loaded remark yet in the pontiff’s early days as the leader of the Catholic Church.
Following his first international press conference last Monday (May 12), the 69-year-old Chicago-born pontiff was walking through a crowd at the Vatican when a press correspondent intercepted him with a short but meaningful question:
“Do you have a message for the United States?”
