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Sky News AU
09-05-2025
- Politics
- Sky News AU
The world now has American leaders influencing the ‘spiritual and the material'
The Wall Street Journal Editor-at-Large Gerard Baker has weighed in on the growing influence of the US on the world amid the election of the new pope. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has been elected as the new supreme pontiff, choosing the name Pope Leo XIV. 'He will have an American disposition,' Mr Baker told Sky News host James Morrow. 'We are going to see this very significant American figure influencing the spiritual side of the world … in the way that we have this extraordinary American figure influencing the material. 'It's North America's world and we're living in it.'
Sky News AU
09-05-2025
- Business
- Sky News AU
Interesting to see two ‘dominant American figures' in Pope Leo XIV and Donald Trump
The Wall Street Journal Editor-at-Large Gerard Baker has weighed in on the election of the first North American pope. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has been elected as the new supreme pontiff, choosing the name Pope Leo XIV. 'It is a remarkable thing,' Mr Baker told Sky News host James Morrow. 'I think you're going to have quite an interesting interaction, quite an interesting balance between these two Americans now who are such dominant figures in the world.'
Wall Street Journal
08-04-2025
- Science
- Wall Street Journal
Do Faith and Science Clash?
Gerard Baker's excellent column 'Faith, Freedom and the Long Thread of Technology' (Free Expression, April 1) explains that religious belief and technology need not be in conflict. I believe he could have gone further: The two can't be in conflict simply because each asks different and mutually exclusive questions. Science asks the 'how' of things and religion the 'why.' We can know the how of everything and nothing of the why. Kemp Skudin Burke, Va.
Wall Street Journal
21-02-2025
- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
DOGE and the MUSKeteers
Acolytes, minions, foot soldiers. These are only some of the labels attached to the employees at the Department of Government Efficiency. In his Feb. 11 column 'Democrats Stand Up for the Bureaucrats' (Free Expression), Gerard Baker adds DOGEniks to the list. It is time to agree on a standard, and the best choice is clear: Behold, the MUSKeteers. Carolyn Gierke
