Pro-gun measures snuck into new Senate bill aimed at preventing government shutdown.

In the flood of stories over the last couple hours there’s been a backdraft of comments and references to Pope Francis’s time during the so-called ‘dirty war’, the era of dictatorship and widespread human rights violations in Argentina. I know zero about his role so have not wanted to comment on it. But the AP has now moved this story which discusses it.

This passage I’m quoting from the AP piece seems to constitute Francis’s defense, if that’s the right word, to the main charge I’ve read in the press flurry over the last few hours … Read More

It turns out the new Pope won’t be able to be called Francis I until after he’s dead.

Lot of good Pope stuff above but don’t miss this piece on Obama finally saying enough is enough on the filibuster.

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