It must be the highlight for any Roman Catholic to meet the head of his church.

So it must have been last week for Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a practicing Catholic.

Rubio was on more than a spiritual journey. His mission was to persuade Pope Leo XIV of the rightness, even the righteousness, of the Trump administration’s actions to destroy Iran’s goal of acquiring a nuclear weapon and likely using it as a means of intimidation, or possibly launching it as a weapon of war.

The Pope is committed to resolving disputes through diplomacy. That course would be worth pursuing if Iran’s leaders and the U.S had even remotely similar goals in mind.

Just as Catholics and Protestants differ in their theology, Islamists differ with just about everybody else, whether they be religious or secular.........

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