WASHINGTON: The Vatican will not participate in U.S. President Donald Trump's so-called "Board of Peace" initiative, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican's top diplomatic official, said on Tuesday while adding that efforts to handle crisis ...

Trump added that Pope Leo "should be thankful," as the only reason he had been elected to the Vatican was "because he was an American" who would be able to "deal with President Donald J. Trump."

The unprecedented clash between President Trump and Leo XIV has a precise origin, already traceable to the days of the conclave. Last May, before the election of the American cardinal