Indeed this column was just awful, long on piety and short on fact.

And MSW? Few care what the bishops say. Anecdotally, the perception by outsiders of the Catholic Church is of an international conspiracy to protect child molesters and of mean-spirited crusaders determined to subjugate women and formalize discrimination against LGBTQs. People do like Francis, but the church, not so much. The bishops' support for Trump managed to further damage an already tattered reputation. The wo/man in the street has never heard of Blase Cupich.