Those who study history hear differently. In his magnificently crafted address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress on September 24th, Pope Francis raised an issue that commentators overlooked or, at best, misread: his acknowledgment that the European occupation of the Western Hemisphere was hard on indigenous peoples, followed by the observation that we … Continue reading The Wild West, the Wild South, and the Pope: What the pundits missed in Pope Francis’ address to Congress