Kiera Butler Kiera Butler is a senior editor/reporter at Mother Jones. For more of her stories, click here. By this Author Feb 27, 2025 The pope is critically ill. Catholic trad trolls are out in force.For some U.S. members of the ascendant Catholic traditionalist movement, Pope Francis' decline presented an opportunity to criticize him and demand that the Vatican reverse course on what they see as a dangerous tack to the left.
