text: Taking a few moments out from the name-calling and bishop bashing, let us consider for a moment the proposition that the Catholic church needs to play a positive role in healing the nation's severe divisions and how it might go about accomplishing that.
  
  What seems to be happening is that the post-war attempt to fashion a “new world order” has proven to be futile, as the UN appoints dictators to head “human right” organizations and wrings its hands as children die in Syria.
  
  Not surprisingly a focus on America - its own problems, its own people, and its own unique role in the world - has returned to prominence. Patriotism was a major theme of Trump’s appeal.
  
  Calling that “fascism” or others “deplorables” accomplishes nothing.
  
  What is needed is patriotism led by the higher spiritual motives, love of God, family, and then country in that order.
  
  And that, it would seem to me, is precisely the role to which the Church is well-suited.