Pope Leo Attacks the Root of Left-Wing Radicalism in France

This Pope knows that the French Revolution is the fons et origo of all left-wing revolutionsfrom Russia to China to Cuba to Cambodiain which the faithful, including Catholics, were often the first victims. Revealingly, here in the U.S., a leading left-wing publication calls itself Jacobin, after the most guillotine-happy faction of the French revolutionists. (And that title serves as a warning: what the hardcore left would do to us if it had the power.) So by his quiet actions, Leo is striking at the root of the revolutionary left, undercutting their legitimacy by reminding the rest of us that they are, if they gain the power, murderous.