In the era of Pope Francis, surely the Church can create better fundraising events than opulent dinners for millionaires, in which people are entertained by cruel and inappropriate jokes. (No, I don't think it's funny for a man to joke about his wife's most embarrassing mistake.) Can you picture Pope Francis attending this event? I can't, unless he brought along a group of homeless people as his guests. Also, the Church should play a peacemaking role whenever possible; I can't think of a worse way to reduce the bitterness of this election than to force the candidates to make jokes about each other. Given the tone of this election, especially Donald Trump's long history of cruel remarks, the organizers of this fundraiser should have eliminated the "roast" portion of the event.