Maureen, you are right on target here:  "...if election night proved anything, it is that we are not only two Americas, but two different American Catholic churches. And I'm not sure we know each other very well … at least to the extent that we should."  

Perhaps the author of the Tower of Babel had a good reason to inject diversity into the story.  We have many different Catholic "languages" in the U.S.  There is the Neo-Trent language, the Vatican II reform language, the feminist Catholic language, the Eastern Catholic Rite/Church languages, the Vatican II Rite/Church language  https://RiteBeyondRome...and others.  Some languages belong to the same family, others not so.  But still, even in our diversity, we can love each other...sometimes love each other better from a bit of acdistance...such that we can genuinely connect upon occasion.