As I have stated before, Chaput conflates religious liberty with religious power, particularly the cultural power weilded by the Church in the 1950s and which started to crack in 1959, as documented by the book of the same name. That year censorship, with Catholic participation, went away and civil authorities stopped enforcing Catholic moral values. That is not a bad thing, unless you are a Catholic bishop with nostalgia.

Obama was no narcisist, whe was simply comfortable in his own skin. Trump, on the other hand, is a textbook example of this disorder and Chaput and some of his brothers (thank Heaven, not including my Cardinal) helped put him in. Speaking of Cardinals, Chaput cannot have missed that Rigali is over 80 and he has no red hat, but Chicago does. He can’t be liking Francis or his friends who wrote the article calling him out. He should use it as an examination of consciece rather than arguing with it.