{"id":21214,"date":"2026-04-12T13:20:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ex-diplomat-ranks-us-vatican-tensions-as-maybe-a-23-on-a-1-10-scale-of-unusual\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T13:20:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:20:29","slug":"ex-diplomat-ranks-us-vatican-tensions-as-maybe-a-23-on-a-1-10-scale-of-unusual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ex-diplomat-ranks-us-vatican-tensions-as-maybe-a-23-on-a-1-10-scale-of-unusual\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-diplomat ranks US-Vatican tensions as \u2018maybe a 23\u2019 on a 1-10 scale of unusual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former diplomat Richard Haass on Saturday said that tensions between the U.S. and the Vatican have reached a 23 out of a 1-to-10 scale. &#8220;Morning Joe Weekend&#8221; co-host Willie Geist asked Haass how unusual a reported threat from the Pentagon to the Vatican&#8217;s former diplomat was during a meeting in January&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/5827329-us-vatican-tensions-haass\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former diplomat Richard Haass on Saturday said that tensions between the U.S. and the Vatican have reached a 23 out of a 1-to-10 scale. &#8220;Morning Joe Weekend&#8221; co-host Willie Geist asked Haass how unusual a reported threat from the Pentagon to the Vatican&#8217;s former diplomat was during a meeting in January&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21214","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\/21214","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=21214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}