I’m guessing Vice President JD Vance’s Catholic formation didn’t include much on the history of the papacy.

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To suggest Pope Leo ‘sticks to matters of morality’ alone is to show a profound ignorance of the role, not just in the modern era.

Cardinal Czerny, who currently heads the Vatican department (dicastery) for promoting human development, put it neatly in a TV interview. Asked about criticism that Leo was too political, he replied that ‘life is political’. Then he explained that being political and being partisan are two very different things.

I’m glad Leo is being so vocal.

The first Pope to really hit my radar was John Paul the Second. He was elected unexpectedly in 1978, after the sudden death of his Italian........

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