Archbishop Chaput's message is clear; The Catholic imagination in America is being culturally appropriated and transformed by secular liberalism’s contempt for the sacred and the supernatural.
And because Chaput is fearless and candid, he names names. Finally to thrive, and even possibly to survive, American Catholicism is going to have to re-imagine itself as something different and separate from mainstream American culture. Then, perhaps, we can speak truth to power — not suck up to power, not whine about power, not submit to power — but contribute to a pluralistic America the gift of our diversity.