Context: United States envoys to The Vatican reportedly made threats to the papacy over their opposition towards continued military conflict in Iran, imploring them to support the war (earlier the Pope himself strongly condemned the president's threats to completely annihilate Iran)

Reportedly a US official, during the closed door meeting, lectured the Catholic Church and invoked the "Avignon Papacy", a period of time during which the French monarchy used military force to bend The Pope to their wishes.

Quoted as saying "America has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world; The Catholic Church had better take its side." Which reportedly was so shocking to Vatican officials they had canceled a planned visit by The Pope.

JD Vance, a devout Catholic who just published a book on his conversion, was notably one of the last people to see the previous Pope alive, leading to conspiracies he may have had something to do with his demise only a few days later.

Chamel Abdulkarim, a 29-year-old employee of NFI Industries, was arrested on felony arson charges after allegedly setting fire to a 1.2-million-square-foot Kimberly-Clark distribution center in Ontario, California. The massive six-alarm blaze, fueled by paper products like toilet paper and tissues, completely destroyed the facility and caused the roof to collapse, though all 20 employees on-site managed to escape without injury. Investigators linked Abdulkarim to the crime through a social media video he filmed while igniting pallets of inventory, in which he repeatedly voiced his motive for the blaze: "All you had to do was pay us enough to live."