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The Improbable Reformers

Since 2013, Pope Francis has reinvigorated the Catholic Church’s message with passionate criticism of unbridled capitalism and a new, more progressive worldview. In the current US presidential primaries, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is doing much the same for the Democratic Party – and US politics more broadly.

MOSCOW – Over the last few years, Pope Francis has reinvigorated the Catholic Church’s core message with passionate criticism of unbridled capitalism and a new, more progressive worldview. In the United States primaries, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign is doing much the same for the Democratic Party – and for US politics more broadly.

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