Will he speak out on political issues? What a scholar expects from new LDS prophet Dallin H. Oaks

Latter-day Saint historian Benjamin Park, author of “American Zion: A New History of Mormonism," talks about Dallin H. Oaks, the new prophet and president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Oaks is an institutionalist, a lawyer and judge, who has spoken out on political issues before, Parks says, but it isn't clear if he will keep talking about them now as church president.

"How is he going to function in the exceptionally partisan and divided community that seems to denounce the very types of institutions and traditions that he has long championed?"