We say: The aftermath of Trump's term is an appropriate time to take stock of what has gone wrong, to identify the ways in which we can strengthen our constitutional order so that the next Trump-like leader isn't nearly as successful.
We say: It's no understatement to say that 2020 has been a year like no other, one already beset with plenty of delayed gratification, waiting and loss. The people in darkness are desperate for the light.
NCR Connections: The bishops, collectively at least, also have a history of blaming the media, most notably when journalists uncovered sexual abuse of children and the related coverup by bishops.
The pope’s former treasurer Cardinal George Pell said Monday he feels a dismayed sense of vindication as the financial mismanagement he tried to uncover in the Holy See is now being exposed in a spiraling Vatican corruption investigation.
