5 Feet of Fury

The Pope You Will Always Have With You: My NEW Taki’s column

I’m not even gonna peek at the comments…

Latin American Jesuits are particularly troublesome. Back in my day, we were all supposed to revere the six priests who were slaughtered in El Salvador in 1989. I was the uppity broad at every editorial meeting who’d mutter, “…and two women,” pointing out that housekeeper Elba Ramos and her sixteen-year-old daughter would be alive today if only Catholic priests would deign to do their own damn laundry.

So naturally Pope Francis views the world through red-colored glasses. Furthermore, he hails from Argentina, a crony capitalism capital of the world. No wonder he seems to see monocle’d Monopoly men around every Baltic Avenue corner.