We will see what summer says about the CA ILLEGALS, BLM, ANTIfa, M13 activity being reportedly somewhat diffused of funding. The streets can get wild, and even the past 2 winters have been rowdy.
The Vatican is a player and has tolerated starvation in communist run Venezuela, el presidente sponsored by Cuba, and the pope has made nice with Columbia, South America, etc. Mexico and all of South America is under Catholic influence, for generations. Most all of SAmer Catholics have long been raised under Socialist/Marxist rule. French Canada is heavily Catholic from Europe.
The pope is openly suspected of being a Marxist, and has surrounded himself inside the Vatican, with gay sympathizers and several are suspected gays themselves. He has come to the aid of blatantly gay priests and bishops, all of them hardened, anti-Catholics, and is causing already a pseudo split, away from the Traditional Catholic Church and hammering faithful Catholics, dismissing faithful cardinals and bishops, creating a new paradigm that involves Soros, open borders everywhere for illegals in the USA and for Muslims flooding into the countries of our Western allies in Europe.
I don’t know how many MS-13 and other illegal gang member have been taken off the streets, but it’s considerable. The funding is interesting because there probably will be little to no actual news about it, time will tell.
I dopn’t see how the Pope, as bad as he is, has very much power outside his particular purview.