1/ I'm not as impressed with Commonweal's piece as Mr. Coday. Particularly in light of the church's inglorious history with fascism I should think Catholic opinion leaders would be scrupulous when confronting church flirtations with neo-Nazi movements like the "alt right." Complacency and appeals to church unity hardly suffice as a response to the peril represented by the rise to power of a vicious ethnic nationalist like Steve Bannon and the emboldening of his rabid acolytes. But we're all sinners, right? 

Commonweal sneers at Emma-Kate Symons' description of  a "far-right, neo-fascist-normalizing cheer squad out of the Holy See." Though Symons proceeds to provide evidence of such a faction, Commonweal doesn't deign to refute her, much less grapple with the alt right's historical parallels: