To the world we dream about, and the one we live in now. Editor at large for Commonweal magazine; writing at
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I was excited to return to one of my favorite/least favorite topics—the way conservatives tried to paint Francis as a backwater dummy because he didn't appreciate the grandeur of American free enterprise—in my piece for MSNBC about Leo XIV. 1/
Opinion | Pope Leo speaks English. That’s bad news for JD Vance.
The language barrier has helped maintain an air of unreality around the papacy in the U.S. That is about to change.
