“We cannot go about our business quietly at home while Lazarus lies at the door," Pope Francis said.

It is helpful and healthy to put aside the myth of sure and sunny progress. Our nation is a very good one, even if it’s never been the “greatest nation on earth.”

How does a Catholic move ahead after the election of Donald J. Trump as president?For many Catholics this not a problem. Indeed, the majority of Catholics voted for Mr. Trump and are presumably delighted by his victory. White Catholics, perhaps responding to his message to promote job growth, s

La Repubblica also quotes Francis as saying, “We must knock down the walls that divide."

If we are not yet exercising a preferential option for those made vulnerable by a Trump presidency, we must absolutely do so now.

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