From Attila the Hun to Donald J. Trump: A brief history of popes battling world leaders

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Donald Trump wasn’t the first, and he likely won’t be the last. The U.S. president’s simmering feud with Pope Leo XIV is just the latest in a millennia-spanning tradition of world leaders beefing with the head of the Catholic Church. War in Iran joins the decline of the Roman Empire and the French Revolution as historic flashpoints that have triggered dust-ups between pontiffs and some of civilization’s most iconic political figures. The latest clash has its origin in the Middle East conflict,

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