Leader of 830,000 NJ Catholics defends pope amid Trump attacks

The U.S. war with Iran has drawn sharp criticism from Pope Leo XIV, the first U.S.-born leader of the Roman Catholic Church, eliciting a brash response from President Donald Trump.

In New Jersey, Bishop David M. O'Connell, who leads 830,000 faithful in the four-county Catholic Diocese of Trenton, described the pontiff's response as measured and principled.

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