It's the bishops, you dufus, the bishops or didn't you read the article. NCR has NO power. It's only an online magizine for peoples opinions -- YOU included!!! 
Those are the bishops who put Trump in the presidency. 
Whatever Trump does is on t e heads and souls of the American Catholic prelature --  including the destruction of the death and destruction of the ME, Europe and of America and our families.  
It is the American Catholic prelates and the likes of such as the Koch bros that have driven the dumb ignorant GOP and their fear mongering, war mongering religion mongering GOP and it's stance on American Exceptionalism and Trickle-down economics that have nearly destroyed our families including the born and the unborn!!! 
Daddy Bush said publicly that poverty IS one of the greatest causes of abortions!!! That poverty is due to Trickle-down Economics. Or as daddy Bush called it voodoo economics. 
Trickle-down is the Catholic prelates answer to Fatima. It is badly misused.