Pope urges US to recommit to founding ideas of protecting life, human dignity on 250th anniversary

The development

Pope urges US to recommit to founding ideas of protecting life, human dignity on 250th anniversary AP News

Why this counts

What makes this worth tracking, according to AP News, is the chain of decisions it may trigger.

What precedes this

The background, as AP News reports, involves shifts that have been visible for some time in pope, urges, recommit, founding, ideas.

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Signal Ledger reads this through the lens of pope, urges, recommit, founding, ideas: Pope urges US to recommit to founding ideas of protecting life, human dignity on 250th anniversary AP News.