The Pope and The Pentagon
This story hits weirdly close to home.
In January, Elbridge Colby, the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, summoned a top Vatican diplomat to both rebut a recent peace-forward, anti-imperialist speech the Pope gave and—according to multiple accounts—threaten the freaking Pope. You can’t make this stuff up.
The Pope’s speech called for disarmament, critiqued nationalism, and bemoaned
the gr…