When "60 Minutes" lined up three American Catholic Cardinals who had been dropping angry "open letters" on President Donald Trump, CBS reporter Norah O'Donnell mustered the audacity to claim, "their candor surprised us." No, they knew precisely what they were orchestrating — another carefully edited hit job on Trump.

Modern liberals, by their nature, are alienated from traditional Christianity, as exemplified by the classic front-page Washington Post phrase about Jerry Falwell's followers: "poor, uneducated, and easy to command."

Liberal TV networks find organized religion useful — when it helps sell the liberal view. They want to add the moral authority of organized religion to their causes. They will celebrate in this case that Pope Leo is not a "pundit" or a "politician," which is true to a point. But it turns into a pundit-palooza.

This American pope surely knows that all his speeches, interviews and tweets are going to be used to score points by political actors, and he knows that he........

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