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INSIDE
WHAT THE
UNITED NATIONS IS WORTH
IN TODAY’S WORLD
THE DISTRESS OF
END-OF-LIFE
DECISIONMAKING
TRUMP
EVOKES MCCARTHY
AND NIXON
“Witch hunts” is what prominent
cardinal Óscar Rodríguez
Maradiaga of Honduras called
the Boston Globe’s and other
outlets’ reporting on decades of
sexual abuse by Catholic priests
in 2002, after the coverage led to
accusations of a cover-up. He is
now one of Pope Francis’ closest
advisers. But they were not
witch hunts. They told the truth ▶
RELIGION
THE POPE’S
TRUE POWER
By Paul Elie