This Week Those Books is chock-full of crucial context — from fiction and non-fiction — to the shouty, doomscroll news cycle.
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The Big Story:
Leo XIV wrapped up an 11-day tour of Africa, including the first visit by a pontiff to Muslim Algeria, with a question trailing him: Is the Chicago-born pope now the most prominent American voice of moral authority?
- Pope Leo has spoken out against the US-Israel war on Iran, the Trump administration’s harsh immigration crackdown and the rush to embrace artificial intelligence, which could threaten human beings’ relationship with the truth and with each other.
- Throughout history, some popes have gone beyond the traditional remit of leading the Catholic church to playing a temporal role in diagnosing the world’s afflictions and ministering to them.
