By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - But let’s take a closer look at that “informal context.” The Pope had been presented with a copy of How American Wants to Change the Pope, in which author Nicolas Seneze argues that a powerful coalition of conservative American political interests is working against the Pontiff. The Pope expresses a keen interest in the book, and in another offhand remark as he passed the book to an aide, described it as “a bomb.”… Seneze does not merely report that the Pope has American critics; he claims, in effect, that there is an American conspiracy against the papacy.