voice for labor in Christendom*
okay but the communards and other rising socialist parties must have been a more of a live issue and threat than the foreign Other of the PRC. i only mean to suggest here that, because socialism in the West is weak, if the Church means to renew its stance on social teaching, there's probably daylight to be more rhetorically against the forces of Capital, if new Leo were so inclined.
ok sure. wonder if tagle's background and its upshot for the Church's relationship w/China led to him being passed over.
totally. hopefully the Left can rise as an actual force in the west soon enough and the Church can return to counting angels on pinheads.