text: There were two statements in this presentation [ 1st by Fr. Gehring] that I would hope that other bloggers would comment upon:
  
  "We have to grapple with the cold reality that a majority of white Catholics played a very decisive role in putting this man [Trump] in office.  That points to a deeper theological crisis at the heart of white Christianity."
  
  Further on down [A. Sullivan] stated that today "there is a vast discomfort with the very fast-changing demography of America" and the fact that giving expression to the discomfort is forbidden...Likewise [Sullivan continued], it is forbidden to really acknowledge that the white working class, or the working class in general, are not just facing economic problems, they are facing economic apocalypse." 
  
  
  As far as white American Catholics are concerned, is there anything that the official church should be doing---that it has failed to do up until now?