Here comes the Pope, whose disposition for bad news, one may hope, is a strong one, inasmuch as the U.S. media keep dishing out the bad tidings. The media theme is that, whatever else His Holiness may find here, in addition to an endless diet of presidential campaign news, he will find a flock looking askance at him.

"A growing segment of U.S. Catholics," says a Catholic professor quoted in the Washington Post, "are essentially developing their own religion, in tension w ...

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