Great and timely article, thank you.

minor quibble, Dolan was NYC not Chicago.

"I'll take 'morally upright popes taking intellectually obtuse presidunces to the political woodshed' for two cents, Alex."

Why JD & little Marco weren't moving on the Catholic hierarchy for their individual future electoral success rather than some deputy? Both men seem to have dabbled (JD w/ name changes & religion & Rubio IIRC LDS from Catholic to ?). I will be surprised if JD doesn't make move to solve this problem

Pontiff is much smarter, better educated & moral.He won't forget JD is an amoral chameleon willing to lie about anything to set a meme (see Haitians eating cats).The key is pontiff has much larger megaphone to population of Hispanics in the Americas & therefore the dt "sphere of influence" use it

Excellent article with such great analysis and cultural background.
I feel like I should be able to immediately guess the unnamed official but my brain is on sebatical. Any guesses? Pete Hegseth?

You don't want to start a fight with Bobby from the South Side.

especially a lad from Chicago