The bishops should confront racism more, but that should include confronting capitalism with its twin evils of oligopolistic pricing and oligopolistic wages. Anyone who claims a free market for either exists is either ill-informed or in the pocket of the capitalists. Interesting plug for Mr. Rogers out of Pittsburgh, but still nothing on capitalism. The protestors on both sides might even agree if the issue were framed in terms of ownership and control of the workplace. Of course, that may make the bishops nervous, since hierarchical capitalism copies Catholic Medievalism.

Sammons was not paying attention to the papacy of St. John Paul, who as a younger man was the chief Vatican II dissenter. That Vatican II is mentioned At all shows that Pope Francis is doing something right.