What they said

 

Pope Leo XIV to the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Holy See: “It is painful to see how, especially in the West, the space for genuine freedom of expression is rapidly shrinking. At the same time, a new Orwellian-style language is developing which, in an attempt to be increasingly inclusive, ends up excluding those who do not conform to the ideologies that are fueling it.” Someone said that at last a moral American head of state.



“Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman.” — Pope Benedict XVI, quoting the 14th-century Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos