We might very well suspect that the law enforcement personnel in Euro-American North Dakota who drenched the Native American water protectors with water cannons in sub-freezing weather and injured many of them have been encouraged to be as tough as they like consequent on the election of a bigoted racist pro-oil pro-pipeline climate-change-denying bully for president.

How inspiring it would have been if there had been a greater Catholic presence in this coming together of religious leaders. Unfortunately the pope's messages in "Laudato Si'" seem not to have been of interest to very many American Catholics.