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Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Reuters President Donald Trump was octagon-side at a bloody Ultimate Fighting Championship in Miami even as Vice President JD Vance was announcing in Pakistan that negotiations with Iran had collapsed, but there was another, globally significant event that same day. It was also the time of pope Leo XIV’s worldwide vigil for peace at a precarious time. The juxtaposition brought to mind a dismissive remark that Stalin of the Soviet Union is said to have made during World War II, in the time of Pope Pius XII. “The Pope? How many divisions has he got?” the dictator said, by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s account. Read more at The Daily Beast.
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