{"id":1390,"date":"2026-07-18T22:07:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T22:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2026-07-18T22:07:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T22:07:38","slug":"popes-one-word-message-to-the-united-states-goes-viral-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/?p=1390","title":{"rendered":"Pope\u2019s one-word message to the United States goes viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Just days into his papacy, Pope Leo XIV made headlines with a viral moment. During a press conference on May 12, a journalist asked if he had a message for the U.S. The Chicago-born Pope paused, smiled, and said just one word: \u201cMany.\u201d He then added, \u201cGod bless you all.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Given Pope Leo\u2019s past criticism of U. S. immigration policy and his balanced but outspoken stance on social justice, many see deeper meaning behind his words<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1973545\" data-uid=\"1107c\">\n<div id=\"mgw1973545_1107c\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Though critical of Trump-era policies, he also questions aspects of the Democratic agenda, preferring a nonpartisan approach centered on compassion and dPignity. His papal name, inspired by Leo XIII, reflects his focus on workers\u2019 rights and fairness.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just days into his papacy, Pope Leo XIV made headlines with a viral moment. During a press conference on May 12, a journalist asked if he had a message for &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1392,"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions\/1392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}