Pope Francis a true believer — in politics

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Pope Francis’s Relentless Pessimism Fuels His Faith in Politics

JUNE 19, 2015

TAGS Global EconomyWorld History

Pope Francis’s new encyclical “On Care for Our Common Home” has been released to much acclaim from the mainstream media. One Germannews sourcedeclares “Papal encyclical could break climate change deadlock.” “Pope Francis’ views on climate change present a moral challenge to many 2016 GOP contenders,”declares US News and World Report. Not in many decades has a papal document been so easily used as a tool for political and electoral ax-grinding.

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Published by Jim Bowman

Jim Bowman covered religion 1968-78 for the Chicago Daily News, since then has written books, articles, etc., mostly on corporate history but also on religion (Company Man: My Jesuit Life, 1950-1968), and more recently on politics (Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters -- Lulu.com, Kindle). Longtime Oak Park, Illinois, resident, he lives now on Chicago's North Side, where four of his and Winnie's six children live close by.

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