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The Vatican and Giorgia Meloni

It’s a fact that should not be lost on anyone that many Catholic voters who elected Meloni as Italy’s new prime minister are anti-Francis, seeing in him someone who favors progressive reforms at the expense of traditional values. “I’m a believer and I listen to the words of His Holiness,” Meloni said in 2020, “but on a political level I don’t always share them.” [1]