This, to save the Republic, / this for the glory of the state, they, the inheritors of, / for them, a great tradition, in their murderous insistences / they, the United States, conduct a killing spree

The U.S. bishops and many of my fellow citizens, by contrast, appear to be sleepwalking into this election.

The Church in this country has permitted itself to become identified with the well-meaning second-rate.