"The Audacity of the Pope"

Ross Douthat reviews the new papal encyclical, "Caritas in Veritate". He calls it "a kind of left-right fusionism with little traction in American politics."

I have a more precise word for it: statism. The Pope advocates more government control over your personal life, and more control over your economic life, seeking to enforce his anachronistic moralism in both spheres. Obviously, this is antithetical to libertarianism....

So from my point of view, the Pope brings out the worst in other world leaders. For this, he may as well be the Satan of world politics (Edit: scratch that!)

As a bonus, he even looks the part.