The most important thing in American politics …

As a political scientist, I think the change, the position Pope Francis has adopted repeatedly on issues of social justice and poverty and youth poverty especially could turn out to be the most important thing in American politics, because the pope matters. I don’t mean just that he’ll say “jump” and people in the United States will say, “How high?” I mean he’s changed the whole tenor of the discussion and not just among Catholics. – Robert Putnam
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2015/05/11/on-poverty-faith-groups-have-been-missing-in-action-obama-and-others-are-trying-to-change-that/?postshare=7311431317646130