Durbin’s reward: An American pope and the Democrats’ leftward drift on abortion

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Pope Leo XIV was leaving the papal villa near Rome at the end of September. He faced a gaggle of cameras and microphones, per usual. “Can I ask you a question in English?” a reporter from the American Catholic news agency EWTN asked him. “One question in English,” the relatively new Bishop of Rome granted.

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