“Cardinal George of Chicago, of happy memory, was one of my great mentors, and he said: ‘Look, until America goes into political decline.
There won’t be an American pope’,” he stated, voicing his reservations about the possibility of an American pope.
“And his argument was, they don’t want America leading the world religiously if America is essentially ruling it politically, culturally, economically.
“So, I believe there is some truth to that; we are such a superpower and so dominant; they do not want to give us, also, control over the church.”
For Robert Barron, the man Donald Trump nominated to serve as the new White House Commission on Religious Liberty, the voting outcome would well surprise him.
