Old Goats

The new pope won’t. He’s a sensible liberal who, three weeks ago, retweeted a post slamming Trump’s deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia: “Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed? How can you stay quiet?” He also retweeted a post reading: “JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn’t ask us to rank our love for others.”

When FDR was later asked for the roots of his political philosophy, he replied: “I’m a Christian and a Democrat.” There’s no question that the new social contract he struck was connected at a deep, instinctive level to the moral and social values articulated by Leo XIII.

Now the magnanimous spirit of the New Deal is under attack as never before. But help is on the way, courtesy of a South Side guy who may end up serving as the conscience of his country and the world.