John L. Allen Jr.
A man in Washington demonstrates near the U.S Capitol Jan. 6, 2022, the first anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump. Photo: CNS. Some years ago, veteran Italian journalist Massimo Franco wrote a book about US/Vatican relations called Imperi Paralleli (“Parallel Empires”), arguing that the intersection between Washington and Rome has driven a great deal of history over the last two centuries. At the moment these parallel empires are intersecting again, each gripped by a maddeningly complicated legal drama. Trial…
