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Is the honeymoon over for Leo XIV?

U.S.-Vatican relations

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Newly elected Pope Leo XIV appears at the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Thursday, May 8, 2025. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.)

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President Donald Trump meets Pope Francis with his wife Melania and daughter Ivanka on May 24, 2017. (Credit: Evan Vucci/Pool/AP.)

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Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services, gestures during a Nov. 15, 2022, news conference after being elected president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops during the fall general assembly of the bishops in Baltimore. (Credit: Bob Roller/CNS.)

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