Vatican officials briefed on the meeting tell The Free Press that the Pentagon warned Cardinal Christophe Pierre in January that the United States has the military power to do "whatever it wants" and that Pope Leo, the first American-born pontiff, "better take its side." The site writes that "as tensions escalated," one U.S. official "went so far as to invoke the Avignon Papacy, the period in the 1300s when the French Crown leveraged its military power to dominate the papal authority."
It's hard to imagine this level of hubris, not to mention what would happen to US relations with every Catholic-majority nation on Earth if the US created an American Papacy.
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