So, despite the fact that the pope hasn\’t actually released his encyclical yet, Jeb Bush wants you to know he, like John F. Kennedy before him, doesn\’t take orders from the pontiff. If elected, Bush would be the second Catholic president. Ditto Marco Rubio, Rick Santorum, Chris Christie and Martin O\’Malley.
\”I hope I’m not going to get castigated for saying this by my priest back home, but I don’t get economic policy from my bishops or my cardinals or my pope,\” Bush said at a Tuesday campaign event in New Hampshire, according to The New York Times.
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