The USCCB meeting offers another opportunity to ditch a style of culture-war Catholicism that has failed to persuade even many of the faithful in the pews.
Assessing blame can be useful. But it could also be paralyzing at the very moment when Trump's foes, and also some of his enablers, need to take responsibility.
Trump may be what sixteenth-century Catholic theologians were worried about, but Luther wouldn’t have recognized him as a Christian any more than the pope would.
From the archives: The presidential candidate of one of our two political parties is a semi-fascist with a gift for mobilizing millions. What is to be done?
