Politics

Dr. Paul Kengor, The Stream - Late in the morning on June 7, 1982, two kindred spirits finally met. Pope John Paul II and President Ronald Reagan convened at the Vatican. For Reagan, this visit fulfilled his long wish to reach out to the pope and the Vatican and “make them an ally.”

By George Neumayr, American Spectator - It shouldn’t surprise anyone that the signature phrases of this pontificate — “Who am I to judge?” and “Inequality is the root of all evil” — come from a Latin American Jesuit immersed in the liberalism of the 1960s... “I was never a right-winger,” he said in an interview with Jesuit editors — the same interview in which he declared the Church too “obsessed” with abortion and gay marriage.