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Why Pope Leo XIV is More than One Small Stand Against Trump

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The cultural moment might seem like Trump’s. But the Catholic Church’s leaders are leading a very different wave.

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Donald Trump, Pope Leo XIV on balcony, photo illustration
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It’s a story you might say could happen “only in America,” but this one is unfolding in Rome: Bob from the south side of Chicago is now His Holiness, the infallible supreme pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church and leader of some one billion Catholics worldwide.

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