Bishop Robert Lynch of the Catholic Diocese of St Petersburg recently published his own musings on the recently completed US Conference of Catholic Bishops meeting

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Michael Spence, a Nobel Prize-winning economist opined that here in the United States we have seen “an evolution from one propertied man, one vote; to one man, one vote; to one person, one vote; trending to one dollar, one vote.”

While not categorically true, the statement has a resonance for me when I consider the system of PACs, SuperPACs and the byzantine structure of political campaign donations. Makes you wonder…