Pope Francis arrives in the U.S. today, and it’s quite a spectacle seeing so many agnostics and atheists posting quotes by him, as in “See, I told ya, even the pope says so,” about climate change or colonialism or many other things. Of course he doesn’t go far enough for some, and too far for others, but if you don’t have a soft spot for a pope who comes to the U.S. for just five days and visits a prison in Philadelphia, then you just don’t have any soft spots.
As Tom Lehrer said, “Ave Maria, gee it’s good to see ya”:
