Clergy often possess the rhetorical skills and community ties that can launch political careers. Yet traditionally, few have held elective office.
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In the 2016 election, Donald Trump won 60% of the American Catholic vote. This year, it will be difficult for him to obtain a similar score, and that could have immense consequences.
What Pope Francis did in his surprise TED talk was to relate the social message of Catholicism to people’s real lives.
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Professor in Historical & Contemporary Ecclesiology, Trinity College Dublin
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Founding Dean of the Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University