VATICAN CITY—“War is back in vogue.” So said Pope Leo XIV to ambassadors from around the world in a marbled hall above the main entrance to St. Peter’s Basilica in January.  He didn’t name names, or have to. President Trump was flexing America’s military might in Venezuela and the Caribbean, threatening to take over the Danish territory of Greenland, and assembling an armada for a looming war with Iran. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was grinding on.  The way Pope Leo saw it, powers were seeking to impose dominion through arms and undermining the taboo since World War II on changing…

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