Pope Francis criticizes the naming of the 'Mother of All Bombs'

The US dropped its largest non-nuclear weapon on ISIS in Afghanistan

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• Dropped on tunnels containing ISIS camp in Afghanistan's Nangarhar Province
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• Pentagon estimates that 800 ISIS terrorists were in the area
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• To an audience of students on Saturday, the Pope said: 'I was ashamed when I heard the name
• 'He added: 'A mother gives life and this one gives death, and we call this device a mother.What is happening?'

• Pope Francis is set to meet U.S. President Donald Trump on May 24 in a potentially awkward encounter due to their different policy opinionsopinions

The Bishop of Rome is not happy with the new title given to the largest non-nuclear United States bomb. 

Pope Francis on Saturday criticized the naming of the U.S. military's biggest non-nuclear explosive as 'the Mother of All Bombs', saying the word 'mother' should not be used in reference to a deadly weapon.

The U.S. Air Force dropped such a bomb, officially designated as the GBU-43 Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) on Islamic State fighters in eastern Afghanistan last month. The nickname was widely used in briefings and reporting on the attack. 

'I was ashamed when I heard the name,' Pope Francis told an audience of students in Milan on Saturday.