
Pope Francis' legacy in the US: A more open, and then divided, church - The Boston Globe
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
56% : He allowed priests to bless same-sex couples and made it easier for divorced and remarried Catholics to participate in church life.47% : He also supported the Iran nuclear deal and Palestinian statehood.
44% : The pope's regained popularity diminished, as US bishops faced a host of federal and state investigations.
30% : Conservative Catholic backlash to values like Francis' helped return Donald Trump to the White House, with Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic convert, by his side, advancing priorities that conflicted with the pope's.
29% : Beginning when Trump ran for president in 2016, Francis challenged his actions and rhetoric toward migrants, questioning his purported Christian values.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.