A majority of Catholics—52 percent—voted for Mr. Trump.

That comment about “clinging to their guns and Bibles”—maybe that was the beginning.

No one should feel complacent about the divisions this election emphasized and exploited, which run far deeper than political allegiances.

It was a dark night and a bleak next morning. And then grace came.

‘I believe that today there is, in fact, a need for everyone to work to change the world situation, which is a situation of grave wounds, of grave conflict.’