When Catholics fail to see one another eye to eye, when families are exiled from their parishes because they "do not fit" any longer, when Catholics shop around for preachers and teachers "friendlier" to their nonreligious convictions, when your Catholic identity is questioned, all because of political and ideological differences, we must acknowledge that something is not OK.
When I hear that a Catholic school closes or struggles to stay open, my heart aches. There are more than 14 million school-age Catholic children in our country, 8 million of them Hispanic. If anything, we should be building Catholic schools.