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  • 2 days ago | wsj.com | Gerard Baker

    In selecting Leo XIV, did the cardinals intend to rebalance the immanent U.S. role on the planet? As John Fisher, the great English martyr who tussled with Henry VIII over the king’s demand for a divorce and a terminal break with Rome, languished in the Tower of London on charges of treason in 1535, Pope Paul III sent word that he was making the elderly bishop a cardinal.

  • 1 week ago | wsj.com | Gerard Baker

    Brexit’s results were less dire than opponents had warned. Something similar may be happening here. Armageddon has been deferred. The doom that was supposed to follow President Trump’s tariff revolution, according to almost all economists (and by even more noneconomists—we live in an age when experts are so little trusted that everyone has become one) has so far stubbornly failed to materialize.

  • 1 week ago | thetimes.com | Gerard Baker

  • 2 weeks ago | wsj.com | Gerard Baker

    After a meeting at the Vatican, the U.S. president toughens his rhetoric toward Putin’s Russia. The Catholic in me wants to believe that something supernatural was at work in the Vatican on Saturday. The image of Presidents Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky, hunched in intense conversation just inside the doors of St. Peter’s Basilica, a mosaic of the Baptism of Christ as their backdrop, was a transcendent moment of hope in a dispiriting time.

  • 2 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Gerard Baker

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Gerard Baker
Gerard Baker @gerardtbaker
10 May 25

Amazing. The NYT has already managed to survey the preponderance of 1.2bn Catholics around the world in two days so it can make this definitive declaration about how they feel about the pope: https://t.co/cSN9AVFLmY

Gerard Baker
Gerard Baker @gerardtbaker
9 May 25

RT @mikeRwilson: @pattomasulo The Pope won't give Chicago a chip on its shoulder, it will give it a feather in its cap aka something to bra…

Gerard Baker
Gerard Baker @gerardtbaker
9 May 25

But Poland went 0-6 under JPII.

Fr. Ambrose
Fr. Ambrose @HoneyTongueMuse

Germany won the World Cup under Benedict XVI Argentina won the World Cup under Francis We will have the 2026 World Cup in the US under an American pope. We're so back