Leo’s Catholic critics tend to focus on just-war theory, while ignoring the support of the last several popes for international law and a world governing authority.
New York governor Kathy Hochul has described herself as a “social-justice Catholic.” Social justice demands that she veto the state's bill legalizing physician-assisted suicide.
For novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, the ambition to associate oneself with the universality that France symbolized was not in tension with the desire to tell the story of Latin America.
"Ramos and Baldelomar speak as if Latino identity were currently diseased. But our history, while indeed plagued by some bad ideas, is also full of antibodies."