When the discussion continues, I hope that it will address the real audience for this article. Argentina is faced with new religious freedom laws, so it is not much of a leap to think the 'voice' of a Pope from Argentina, writing with the Argentine editor of the magazine, is talking to Argentina. Not that I have seen anyone mention it, but I don't read everything.

It is like the Americanism controversy under Leo XIII. Then Leo wrote of pro-enlightenment tendencies in America, though his major concern was probably Europe. Now Francis, or rather his surrogates, talk about anti enlightenment tendencies in America, but Argentina is the target. (Ironically, the Vatican has switched sides inbetween, from anti enlightenment to pro-enlightenment, at least in part.)