What in the world is wrong with our leaders?
This is a question twenty-first-century Americans must continually ask themselves. Since the officially hidden abuses of Cardinal Theodore "Uncle Ted" McCarrick were made manifest last summer, it has become an especially acute question for American Catholics. Their—and as a confirmed Catholic layman, I can also say "our"—leaders have once again covered themselves in disgrace.
The story is by now famous. While waiting last Friday afternoon for their bus home after the March for Life, roughly thirty students from the all-male Covington Catholic High School in Park Hills, Kentucky, found themselves in an incident—altercation is far too strong a term—with American Indian Movement activists in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
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