Dan Hitchens of First Things hits multiple nails on their heads in this excellent short piece about the Trump- Pope fracas.

First on Trump:

However, Trump looks less and less like a great figure, not just because of his failings but because those failings seem increasingly to be destroying even his solid achievements.

Then on the Pope— and the Holy See generally:

It’s not necessary to relitigate the fascinating arguments about the Book of Joshua, the centurion in the Gospels, King Alfred, St. Louis IX, St. Joan of Arc, the Battle of Lepanto, the Siege of Vienna, the liberation of Nazi-occupied Europe, and any number of thought experiments regarding the tangled and bloody threads of the conflict in the Middle East to make the point that the Holy See is not currently the first place to look for theological rigor. It is only necessary to point out that, almost a year into this pontificate, firstthings.com/archbis… is still in charge of the Vatican’s doctrine department.

Read the whole thing.