For decades, Bishop Gumbleton had been on the vanguard of liberal Catholicism, pushing the hierarchy to embrace same-sex marriages and working across the globe for social justice.
He was arrested protesting war and clashed with fellow bishops in supporting gay marriage and the ordination of women and championing victims of sex abuse by priests.
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Coming to politics from politics, or from state-dependent nonprofits, leading government after working for the government, elected officials run a country they’ve never visited.