Commonweal editor-at-large Mollie Wilson O’Reilly addresses the U.S. bishops’ misguided approach to President Biden and communion, their missteps in responding to the presidency of Donald Trump, and missed opportunities in ministering to American Catholics during the pandemic.

For further reading:

• The Real Threat to American Catholicism, Mollie Wilson O’Reilly
• Pastors, not Prophets, The Editors
• There Ought to Be a Law, Matthew Boudway