The Way Forward for Church and Country

When first told that Jesus was "him of whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote," the future Apostle Nathanael replied, "Can anything good from Nazareth?" Today we might ask, "Can anything good come from California?" Or, for jaundiced Catholics, "Can anything good come from the bishops?" Jose Gomez, like the Nazarene rabbi of old, has proven the skeptics wrong. The Archbishop of Los Angeles, Gomez turned a lot of heads with a video address delivered to the Congress of Catholics and Public Life in Madrid, Spain, on November 4. Decrying what he calls the modern "pseudo-religions" that go by various names -- "wokeness," "intersectionality," "successor ideology," and even "social justice" -- Archbishop Gomez not only diagnosed what makes them so destructive but pointed the way forward for Catholics, other Christians, and, more broadly the United States and other countries beset with these pseudo-religions.