This is not a MAGA Pope

The new Pope is an American. Do not, for a minute, think he wants to Make America Great Again.

- BY PHILIP ELLIOTT

When Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost became leader to the world's 1.4 billion Catholics and took the name Leo XIV, the former missionary stepped into a slot that left him as an ideological check on a certain breed of American-styled Catholicism, which in recent years has been ascendant in Washington as it has drifted into more conservative lanes than its global brethren. With Vice President J.D. Vance and six of the nine Supreme Court Justices as part of his flock, Leo XIV becomes the most powerful Catho