Taking pleasure in others’ suffering, once morally condemned, has become a driving spirit of today’s politics, reversing values in a way that joins neoliberalism to a resurgent fascism against compassion and solidarity.

Being conservative on sexuality need not place a Christian on the political right, since the deeper divide is between hearts moved by the suffering of the poor and those unmoved by it.

Taking Pope Leo XIV's words as a cue, we must understand that the Church's deepest divide is not over LGBTQ inclusion but social justice, where Christianity confronts a neoliberalism built on the law of the strongest.