{"id":21146,"date":"2026-04-10T08:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/pentagon-denies-threatening-vatican-during-january-meeting-with-holy-sees-diplomat\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T08:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:22:14","slug":"pentagon-denies-threatening-vatican-during-january-meeting-with-holy-sees-diplomat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/pentagon-denies-threatening-vatican-during-january-meeting-with-holy-sees-diplomat\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon denies threatening Vatican during January meeting with Holy See\u2019s diplomat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon has denied threatening the Vatican during a late January meeting with the Holy See&rsquo;s then-envoy to the U.S., as Pope Leo XIV has warned against the growing use of military action in recent months.&nbsp; The Pentagon&rsquo;s policy office head, Elbridge Colby, met with Cardinal Christophe Pierre&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5824857-pentagon-denies-threats-vatican\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon has denied threatening the Vatican during a late January meeting with the Holy See&rsquo;s then-envoy to the U.S., as Pope Leo XIV has warned against the growing use of military action in recent months.&nbsp; The Pentagon&rsquo;s policy office head, Elbridge Colby, met with Cardinal Christophe Pierre&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}