text: On the basis of abortion, SSM and imaginary threats to "religious liberty," the bishops supported the election of a delusional conspiracy theorist and megalomaniac with the power to destroy civilization. Abortion is moot in a nuclear wasteland or an environment rendered hostile to life by climate change. The Trump administration is in the process of dismantling the EPA and will stack what's left of it with ideologues promoting pseudo-science in the interest of billionaires invested in fossil fuels. Pro-life?
  
  The church could be so much more more effective in promoting its ethic of life if it abandoned its crusade to criminalize abortion. Instead the bishops are anxious to reassert their lost authority and insinuate Catholic theology into the civic order, joining forces with some of the most dangerous and repugnant individuals ever to come to power in the US. The church is again on the wrong side of history.