text: The Catholic Church should be speaking out against the overt racism of Trump but they don't want to alienate the majority of white Catholics that voted for him.   Instead they remain   silent as he  denigrates  Hispanics who are overwhelmingly Catholic and the future of the church.
   
  
  "His incoherent and contradictory utterances have one thing in common: They provoke and play on feelings of resentment and disdain, intermingled with bits of fear, hatred and anger. His public discourse consists of attacking or ridiculing a wide range of “others” — Muslims, Hispanics, women, Chinese, Mexicans, Europeans, Arabs, immigrants, refugees — whom he depicts either as threats or as objects of derision. His program, such as it is, consists chiefly of promises to get tough with foreigners and people of nonwhite complexion. He will deport them, bar them, get them to knuckle under, make them pay up or make them shut up."................Robert Kagan