text: Any priest or bishop who promotes or attacks a specific candidate is abusing his office.  I suggest that any parishioner who is subject to that abuse should withhold some or all of his/her support for the parish and/or diocese; should divert the money to the candidate or charity of her or his choice; and should write to the priest, the bishop and the nuncio to inform them of the action taken and the reason for it.
  
  I am seeing more frequent reports of Catholic clergy advocating, more or less explicitly, the candidacy of Donald Trump, and sat through one 'homily' like that -- and left the Mass after the campaign speech disguised as a homily.  This is a profound disgrace to our church and I hope there will be consequences for the offending clergy.  Truly deplorable.