"Vatican officials briefed on the meeting told The Free Press that one of the Pentagon’s most senior officials summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre to meet in January—then told him that the United States has the military power to do 'whatever it wants,' and that Pope Leo, the first American-born pontiff, 'better take its side.'"
“A top Vatican diplomat was summoned to the Pentagon for a ‘bitter lecture’ demanding that the Pope get behind Donald Trump, it has emerged.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-official-gives-vatican-bitter-lecture-amid-growing-rift/