‘Narrow the guest list to people who already hold the Church’s positions and what is left is a caucus with incense.’
Christopher HaleNEW: Pope Leo XIV received Patti Smith at the Vatican on Friday, a forty-minute private audience between two natives of Chicago. Within hours, the Catholic right was asking why the Godmother of Punk rates a papal audience and the right-wing dissident sect Society of St. Pius X does not.