
The Vatican has been thrust into a vicious American media storm after Fox News host Sean Hannity and US President Donald Trump launched a coordinated assault on Pope Leo XIV.
In a move that has stunned religious observers, Hannity used his national platform, The Sean Hannity Show, to question whether the first North American Pontiff had 'even read the Bible.' This extraordinary challenge to the spiritual authority of the Catholic Church coincided with a series of outbursts from Trump, who branded the Pope 'weak' and 'radical left.'