The Pope gave the president an English translation of Laudato Si, an encyclical he wrote in 2015 on the environment – a pointed gift, given that Mr Trump has threatened to withdraw the US from the 2015 Paris accord on combating climate change.
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Right on cue, the pontifical patriarch is decrying good old-fashioned gumption in the very year that he is planning the funeral of the historical hallmark of gumption. The Reformation. Coincidence? I think not.
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