{"id":479753,"date":"2026-05-11T20:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/479753\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T20:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:35:10","slug":"perrins-leo-varadkar-finds-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/479753\/","title":{"rendered":"PERRINS: Leo Varadkar finds religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pope Leo is so hot right now. He is so popular that even former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is taking guidance from the Holy Father. Not guidance on all the big issues, just on the stuff he agrees with.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The former Taoiseach took time out of his busy diary trashing rural Ireland to talk about God in his Sunday Times column. Varadkar found religion in a piece\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/world\/ireland-world\/article\/leo-varadkar-religion-danger-politics-v9bpk9cd9\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/world\/ireland-world\/article\/leo-varadkar-religion-danger-politics-v9bpk9cd9&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1778587661641000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2DQg-tlojOZG9Hr9QBOLXW\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">headlined<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u201c<strong>In God we trust \u2014 but not necessarily the leaders who invoke him.<\/strong>\u00a0The world is moving closer to being dominated by theocracies, where politicians use religion as a way to quell dissent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This article is premium content<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Get unlimited access to Gript<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Support Gript and get exclusive content, full archives and an ad-free experience<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"v-btn v-btn--block v-btn--has-bg theme--light v-size--large accent mb-6\" href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/membership\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pope Leo is so hot right now. He is so popular that even former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,109235,13,14,6,4596,17,11,12,34886,15,16,5,209966,5874,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":["post-479753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-catholic","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-identity","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-leo-varadkar","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-popoe-leo","tag-religion","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-world","tag-world-news","tag-worldnews"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116557861949339207","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}