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By Kennedy Hall, Crisis Magazine - I must confess that I have never written a letter to the pope before, and I ask your forgiveness if I fail to observe the proper forms of address. I assure you it is innocent ignorance, not malice... First, I want to thank you for accepting the call to be pope. It is not a role I would want for myself. It is the most important office in the world—humanly speaking, the most consequential position of authority in all of human history. There is no higher office, no greater dignity, no position a man can hold which more powerfully demonstrates the authority of Christ our King on earth. ...

By John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist -The theological fault lines that divide America’s 50 million or so Catholics from its roughly 130 million Protestants have been largely set aside when it comes to politics in the Trump era, if only because most practicing Christians in the United States understand they have a common foe in the secular left. When Democrats are openly trying to drive all forms of Christian piety from the public square and impose what amounts to a neopagan morality, it tends to focus one’s attention on the near enemy.