text: If they announce this at Mass on Sunday,  maybe some of the 15 Catholics under 40 might participate. That's the problem -- we lost -- threw away -- several generations of Catholics, especially when the American Bishops and the Knights of Columbus formed the Republican Catholic Church. The American church became a political pressure group, not a faith community. Papa Francis is doing his best to restore prayer, humility, generosity, compassion, faithfulness, and most of all Jesus, but it is so hard when so many conservative bishops rush to excommunicate everyone who breathes differently than they do politically.  How sad to see Americans bishops discard Jesus' Gospel for Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump, and Paul Ryan. We will never have a culture of life if we only oppose abortion and birth control -- a culture of life demands health care, food, housing, clean air, water, fair wages, equal rights for both genders and rights of children.