Pentagon denies threatening Vatican during January meeting with Holy See’s diplomat

Vatican meeting at Pentagon was ‘unusual,’ a church official says

U.S. and Vatican officials have sought to downplay accounts of a strained relationship, but there have been tensions between the Trump administration and the Catholic Church.

"Completely Untrue": Holy See Rejects Fake News Story of Pentagon Threat to Vatican

In a desperate effort to drive a wedge between Catholics and the Trump administration, the fake news circulated a story implying that the Department of War (DOW) threatened the Vatican.

Vatican officials downplay report of contentious Pentagon meeting

The Defense Department has described the meeting as a ‘respectful and reasonable discussion’

NEW: Vatican Officially Crushes Dems' Narrative, Debunks Fake News Of Pentagon 'Threat'

The Pentagon and the Vatican are swatting down a report claiming a U.S. defense official threatened the Holy See during a late-January meeting, calling the story fiction and warning that the sensational framing is designed to stir division. The controversy centers on a Jan. 22 meeting at the Pentagon between Elbridge Colby, the Pentagon’s policy office head, and Cardinal Christophe Pierre, then the Vatican’s top diplomat to the United States. Th…

Vatican denies media spin of envoy meeting at the Pentagon

ROME – On Friday, the Vatican formally debunked a viral news report alleging that U.S. officials summoned a Vatican diplomat to the Pentagon to lecture him on the nation’s military might, threatening the Holy See to step in line. The report, published in The Free Press earlier this week at a time of heightened U.S.-Vatican tensions over a series of U.S. foreign policy decisions, stated that U.S. defense officials had summoned the Vatican’s envoy…