From Sean Ring, “The Pope, the Libertarian, and the Angelic Doctor Walk Into a Bar…,” The Daily Reckoning (Nov. 20, 2025).
The Pope, the Libertarian, and the Angelic Doctor Walk Into a Bar…
My good friend and host of the No Way Out podcast, Mark McGrath, likes to call me the second-most famous Villanova graduate in Italy. Of course, the most famous one sits on the Throne of St. Peter and has this uncanny penchant for pissing me off.
I had high hopes for Papa Leone, as we call him here in Italy. But time and again, from blessing ice blocks to condemning nation-states for enforcing borders, he’s let me down.
Sean discusses also Hoppe’s views on immigration, and those of Thomas Aquinas. Of course, Professor Hoppe incorporates the relevant thought of Aquinas in his writings on the subject.
