Some years back, after hearing from often unlikely sources "I like this pope", I did some ... very nonscientific ... research into the papacy and references to the poor or poverty, based on Wikipedia entries, going back about 200 years.

Even heavily discounting Wikipedia's extreme recency bias, Pope Francis's focus on the poor and on economic injustice seems utterly remarkable.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/258gq1/francis...