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The protest occurred after the outcome of the bishops’ votes on “Witnessing to the Equal Dignity of Women and Men.”

The Supreme Court appears set to overturn its Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized abortion for nearly 50 years, according to a leaked initial draft of a court opinion obtained by Politico and published online the evening of May 2.

“I wonder if the Church can play a mediating role in the midst of our division. It can provide a meeting ground where Catholics and others who identify with either party can meet the other.”

“This is not some sentimental, feel-good book on how we need to be kind to each other. It’s more like a Sermon on the Mount for our time, or at least how we might work towards living the Sermon on the Mount.”

While the liberal permission to use the older Mass was put in place to promote unity, it now has sown division by undermining the reforms of the Second Vatican Council through the rejection of the most important of them: the reform of the Roman Rite.

St. Eugene de Mazenod left us with these last words as he lay dying: “Among yourselves, charity, charity, charity.” I don’t always live that, though I wish I could, especially today.

The new book is a compilation of essays of the views of American Catholics and how polarization has divided our church and what might be done to bring us together.