Javier Milei of La Libertad Avanza political coalition holds a placard depicting a dollar bill with his face on it during a campaign rally in La Plata, Argentina, September 12 of this year. Mr Milei won the presidential run-off, November 19. He has derided Pope Francis as “filthy leftist,” though some weeks ahead of the election, he softened his tone to win more centrist voters, according to analysts. Photo: OSV News/Agustin Marcarian, Reuters When you’re talking about the Catholic Church, you need to be awfully careful about using the word “unprecedented” to describe any new development. This is an institution with more than 2,000 years of history, which has seen just about every vicissitude imaginable, and its opposite, over that span. As the late Cardinal Francis George of…
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