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A president and a pope: The world's most influential Americans are at odds over Iran
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A president and a pope: The world's most influential Americans are at odds over Iran

  • By BILL BARROW Associated Press

Donald Trump is accustomed to criticism from coast to coast — Democrats, disaffected Republicans, late-night comedians, protesters. Yet Trump's most influential American critic doesn't live in the country but at the Vatican. The first American pope has directly assailed the American president over the war in Iran. Pope Leo XIV declared that Trump's belligerence was "truly unacceptable." Never before has the relationship between Washington and the Vatican revolved around two Americans — a 79-year-old politician from Queens and a 70-year-old pontiff from Chicago. They come from the same generation and share some common cultural roots yet bring jarringly distinct approaches to their positions of vast power. And the relationship comes with risks for both sides.

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Patrick Joseph Hilliard

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Patrick Joseph Hilliard, born in Chicago Feb. 24, 1945, to Robert Hilliard and Alois Mertensmeyer, died April 1, 2017.