We have reached such an extraordinary degree of political derangement within Catholic discourse in the U.S. that twelve bishops praying over the President of the United States now constitutes a scandal requiring public apologies and elaborate explanations from successors of the Apostles.
The recent outrage directed toward bishops who prayed over President Donald Trump in the Oval Office reveals an increasingly disturbing theological illiteracy among those who apparently consider themselves sufficiently qualified to lecture the episcopacy about the appropriate exercise of its sacred responsibilities.
The entire controversy is embarrassing. It demonstrates how thoroughly partisan political allegiances have colonized and corrupted the religious imagination of individuals who should otherwise possess sufficient theological formation to recognize what is an ordinary exercise of episcopal ministry.
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