With her rival gradually accumulating pledges of support from the Super Delegates - the members ofthe party hierarchy who look set to decide the outcome ofthe nomination race - she badly needs a similar result in Pennsylvania.
When discussing with clients their hierarchyofneeds, they begin the discussion with items such as exotic vacations, country clubs, luxury cars and lavish lifestyles.
The move is the latest in a series of reforms by Francis as he seeks to make the church more responsive to the real needsof lay Catholics, especially those who have long felt marginalized by thehierarchy.
Western Europe has turned Abraham Maslow on his head: rather than leading us up his Hierarchyof Human Needs, they seem to value little more than the animal security ofthe bottom rung.