text: Tom, I am sorry, I think you are more hopeful than practical. The American Catholic Bishops have allowed themselves, as a body and individually, to be corrupted by ideological stances that do not allow dialogue. They have been baited and have taken it, hook, line and sinker, and while duped into thinking they have influence, have made the Catholic Church in the US, sectarian. 
  
  November 9 and 10 marked the 76th anniversary of “Kristallnacht” when Nazis ran wild, desecrating synagogues, burning the Scrolls, burning and vandalizing Jewish businesses and homes, terrorizing a community of people, killing 100, and initiating the persecution of the Jews, resulting in the Holocaust. 
  
  Ideology replaced politics and so civic society in Germany was wiped out or significantly diminished functional politics, to the point that civic society could not resist the great evil let loose in Germany, Europe, and the world. 
  
  Our religious institutions are so infected by ideology- we need a cleansing.