Sr. Joan, 
I agree, totally, with your thoughts. Thank you for your thoughts, insights and analysis, your spot on, as usual. Truly it seems America is going backward. The oft repeated GOP anti-intellectualism and anti=factualism (such a non word, but it express) is now exploding and rampant in America. My only hope is that Trump will not be as bad as he seems to be.
But I am very thankful for you and nearly everyone else on this site and for each ones thoughts and questions and wonderings and insights.
Bless you - you know who you all are. And Bless Pope Francis. a true Catholic pope and healer and bridge builder, as Christ was. I truly hope he succeeds. I know where Pope Francis is going. 
I knew where the last two popes were going. Scalia said it when he called for: "the end to the Rule of Law in America AND: "the end to democracy in America." 
II call for a millstone to be tied around their necks and they be plunged into the depths and for the fiery abyss to consume them.