A New Order at the Vatican, An Old and Dying Order in D.C.

By Carl Davidson

LeftLinks Weekly for May 9, 2025

I was surprised, like everyone, to learn that Robert Prevost, born in Chicago and mainly educated in the U.S., would become the first ‘American Pope,’ Leo the 14^th. The Roman Catholic church of the 2020s is far different from that of the 1950s, in which I was raised.

It’s worth noting that Leo is not Americ…