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The Hello and welcome to Behind the News. My name is Doug Hinwood.

As mandated by Cultural Marxism Central,

the typical, all-too-typical civilization undermining two segments today. Greg Grandin will talk

about the influence of Latin America on Pope Leo the 14th, and AJA. Woods will reveal the secrets of

the cultural Marxist conspiracy, as seen first by Lyndon Lerouche and then by the American far right.

Everything bad, you see, is a product of the Frankfurt School. I grew up Catholic and even had a few

episodes of faith in my younger days the last during my early college years. I fell away from it,

but I have to admit the recent sequence of popes, first Francis and now Leo the 14th,

or making that problematic

ancient institution seem almost appealing again. Leo's encyclical, more against than on,

artificial intelligence is a very serious, thoughtful, and welcome thing at a time when rampant

stupidity is being committed to sell the stuff. And Leo's defense of migrants in this promotion of universalism

at a time when ugly nationalist particularisms are running wild are deeply welcomed.

There's something to be said for having an ethical code rooted in a 2,000-year-old institution,

though God knows the church also has plenty to answer for over the centuries. But that foundation

gives the Pope a moral authority that no

substacker can match. That Pope's Francis and Leo share a background in Latin America is important.

Francis was from Argentina and Leo, though from Chicago, spent many years in Peru. The historian Greg

Grandin has a fascinating article in the New York Review of Books on how his time

spent in Latin America has shaped Leo's thinking. Greg's article is also a fascinating look at the

politics of the Catholic Church, which went from the broadly progressive agenda of Vatican

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