All those prayers from Catholics to convert Russia has actually converted Russia! In his latest paean to Vladimir Putin, Pat Buchanan lauded the Russian president for “planting Russia’s flag firmly on the side of traditional Christianity” with his policies against reproductive choice and LGBT rights – evidence, Buchanan suggested, that God is on Putin’s side in his showdown with the West.

In his April 4 syndicated column, Buchanan heralded Putin as the global leader of a backlash against “a hedonistic secular and social revolution coming out of the West”: MORE