The chattering classes may not care for the new pope, but more than 8 in 10 American Catholics approve and 73 percent say they’re “enthusiastic,” according to this poll. This is no surprise, of course, and it’s this kind of thing that drives the three major newsweeklies to put B16 on their covers, even as (at least Time and Newsweek) probably dish on him inside.
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John J. Miller, a former national correspondent for National Review, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.
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