Pope Leo XIV used his annual address to foreign diplomats at the Vatican to issue a stark warning that struck at the heart of the Western political order.
The first American pontiff cautioned that freedom of expression in the West is contracting under the liberal-globalist banner of so-called ‘progress and inclusion’. According to the Pope, Western societies, for a long time, have drifted and continue to drift toward enforced consensus rather than open debate.
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