I agree with everything you say - it matches what people are saying here in The Netherlands - and hope the Church does indeed stand up for the poor. I am bitter that the Church failed to do all that before the election. As always it allowed one issue - the right of a woman to choose for herself what happens to her body - to be the sole criteria by which to judge how Catholics should vote. We now confront a demagogue, with the full backing of Congress, becoming the leader of the free world. Catholic voters - amongst others - put him there.