December 27, 2013 12:41 AM
By Eugene Robinson
The Daily Star
STORY SUMMARY
I want to say Pope Francis, but I’ve got to go with Edward Snowden. The spiritual leader of 1.2 billion Roman Catholics and a whistle-blowing fugitive from American justice have just one thing in common: impact. Francis, by shifting his church’s focus to social justice, may change the world. But Snowden, by revealing the vast extent of government surveillance, already has.
Francis has also moved boldly to shake up the conservative church bureaucracy.
Snowden, unlike Francis, is rarely accused of humility.
Snowden’s decision to leak massive amounts of information concerning some of the NSA’s most secret and intrusive spying programs has done more than embarrass officials in Washington.
Snowden’s revelations are devastating in their specificity
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