text: "This means, at the very least, we should be skeptical when our churches hold nationalistic celebrations or sing patriotic songs or when Christian leaders display coziness with particular political parties or candidates."
  
  And yet if one watches the crowd at most/many international Catholic events, one see may see any number of other nations' faithful proudly waving their own national flags. Given that nobody has declared this to be disgusting, I should think this sort of tirade would be discredited. If you want to have an international Church, it'd be helpful if you didn't spit on Americans for being as proud of their country as others are of theirs.