‘Bad news for JD Vance’: New pope could spell trouble for US politicians

A new op-ed published Friday suggested that the election of Pope Leo XIV – the first American pope – could pose challenges for U.S. politicians like Vice President JD Vance, who have aligned themselves with Catholic ideology.

That’s according to Commonweal editor-at-large Mollie Wilson O’Reilly, who argued Friday that Pope Leo’s American roots and fluency in English remove longtime language barriers between the Vatican and American elected officials. Unlike his predecessors, she told readers...