Political schism: assessing the politics of Pope Leo XIV

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  The Economist. The Great Fire of 1805 burnt nearly all of Detroit to the ground.

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  Control of the city had bounced back and forth among the native population, French,

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  British, Americans, but none of them had created a professional fire department.

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  Among the buildings destroyed in that fire was St. Anne's Church.

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  One of its priests was Father Gabriel Richard.

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  Years after the fire, he would be elected to Congress as a non-voting member,

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  since Michigan wasn't yet a state.

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  The first ever priest elected to Congress.

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  But he may be best known as the man who wrote Detroit's motto after the fire.

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  Now, with an American pope, many American Catholics are hoping for better things too.

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  I'm John Priddo, and this is Checks and Balance from The Economist.

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  Each week, we take one big theme shaping American politics and explore it in depth.

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  Today, Pope Leo and Catholicism in America.

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  In his first days on the job, he's called for the end of the wars in Gaza and Ukraine,

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  warned about the threats from artificial intelligence, and said little about partisan politics.

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  So what's important to the new Pope?

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  Where do his beliefs fit along the American political spectrum?

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  And what does his selection mean to American Catholics and non-Catholics alike?

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  With me this week to talk about American Catholicism and Pope Leo are Idris Kalloun,

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  who's in Washington, D.C., and Adam O'Neill, who's also in Washington.

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