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Trump & Company has come up with a way that they think will control the Pope... threaten his citizenship!

Can Pope Leo remain a U.S. citizen now that he’s a foreign head of state?

AP New

By  RUSS BYNUM

May 25, 2025

Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first U.S.-born leader of the Catholic Church elevated him to the extremely rare, and legally thorny, position of being an American citizen who now is also a foreign head of state.

Born in Chicago as Robert Prevost in 1955, the new pope for the past decade has held dual citizenship in the U.S. and Peru, where he spent time as a missionary and bishop.

As pope, Leo serves as leader of both the Holy See, the governing body of the Catholic Church, and Vatican City, an independent state.

Can the pope remain a U.S. citizen while leading a foreign government? Here are things to know about Leo’s citizenship.

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Vatican City covers just 0.17 square miles (0.44 square kilometers) and has a population of a few hundred people. It became an independent state in 1929 under a treaty between Italy and the Holy See.

What gets me is this...

But the U.S. State Department says on its website that it may “actively review” the citizenship status of Americans who “serve as a foreign head of state, foreign head of government, or foreign minister.”

Translate from Newspeak... If the Pope follows Trump wises... no problem with citizenship, but is he opposes Trump then there goes his citizenship!