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Trump cannot bear the judgments of Pope Leo | Sidney Blumenthal

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Trump cannot bear the judgments of Pope Leo | Sidney Blumenthal
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The political gap between US evangelicals and Catholics is widening. And Trump won’t tolerate authority outside his own“Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?” Henry II was reputed to have muttered. His knights heard his pointed remark as an order. They rode to confront Thomas Becket, the archbishop of Canterbury, who spoke too freely and critically about the king. When they failed to intimidate him into silence, they murdered him. Absolute rule demanded absolute fealty.The representative of

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