"Broken" includes all of us, to a greater or lesser degree.

Ergo: the church (or place of worship) is a place for all of us.

Keeping house, reading more books than I do now. nt

Before you learn those words, you might want to learn

I agree with your statement, especially two points:

1. "While the Democrats slept" - so telling and apparently we/Dems still do not have the answers to overcome the inertia at election time. We know we have the numbers, as statewide totals are larger for Dems, as in Ohio, but redistricting locks up some of these states for Republicans for some years to come.

2. "Catholic hierarchy...pushed their flocks... on a one issue choice of their opposition to abortion." Unfortunately, this is still going on, as occasional glimpses into EWTN remind me, and, also, unfortunately, the allegiance of many Catholics has been turned for the long-term to the right-wing philosophy of Republicanism. That's why I find the railing against Catholicism and religion in general that is so prevalent on this site and some other Dem sites so counter-productive.

A new printer for my computer that was new around Christmastime.

I paid, but my son purchased and installed.
There's still much to figure out about both, and having poor vision doesn't help.

I was away during Jan & Feb, so just really started using computer in March, and printer installed late in March.

I like to scan old family photos using the printer, and post some of them on Facebook for the younger generations, brought up away from the family home city.

All the time. nt

Very moving. I hadn't heard this before. Thank you. nt

Pardon the inarticulateness of my comment. My point is that there are

many (more?) Catholic politicians of the progressive stripe than there are of the regressive (RW) type.
And many have been and are influential, starting with Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Dick Durbin, working on down through the Congress, especially those representing the Northeast.

More directly to your point, Boehner and Ryan are indeed acting contrary to perceived Catholic social justice, but, thankfully, there are many Catholic pols working against the policies of these two.

Maybe the seeds will wind up in the Vatican Museum somewhere.

They might sprout on their own in the stacks.
(Stacks= library term for back shelves.)

For every right-wing Catholic politician, there are likely two progressive politicians.

Check out the religious affiliation of pols from the Northeast states, and California, for example.

(And, I'm putting this out not having done an actual count, but just from past knowledge.)