{"id":260240,"date":"2026-05-06T12:49:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=260240"},"modified":"2026-05-06T12:52:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:52:01","slug":"pope-leo-xiv-marks-1-year-as-bishop-of-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/260240\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV marks 1 year as Bishop of Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pope Leo marks his first year leading the Catholic Church on Friday, Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

The first US-born pope, who sharply denounced war and despotism on a recent four-nation Africa tour, ‌ is expected to release his first in-depth teaching document this month and is preparing for a one-week trip to Spain in June.<\/p>\n

Leo, who maintained a relatively low profile in his first 10 months as pope, attracted attacks from Trump after criticizing the US-Israeli war on Iran.<\/p>\n

The pope is due to meet on Thursday with US Secretary of State ​Marco Rubio, in his first known in-person meeting with a Trump cabinet member in nearly a year.<\/p>\n

Rubio expects a “frank conversation” with Leo to discuss Trump administration policies, the US ambassador to the Holy ​See said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pope Leo marks his first year leading the Catholic Church on Friday, Reuters writes. The first US-born pope, who sharply denounced war and despotism on a recent four-nation Africa tour, ‌ is expected to release his first in-depth teaching document this month and is preparing for a one-week trip to Spain in June. Leo, who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":260237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260241,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260240\/revisions\/260241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}