It is helpful and healthy to put aside the myth of sure and sunny progress. Our nation is a very good one, even if it’s never been the “greatest nation on earth.”

La Repubblica also quotes Francis as saying, “We must knock down the walls that divide."

If we are not yet exercising a preferential option for those made vulnerable by a Trump presidency, we must absolutely do so now.

Maybe our nostalgia for “better days” is simply a case of buyer’s remorse.

A majority of Catholics—52 percent—voted for Mr. Trump.

That comment about “clinging to their guns and Bibles”—maybe that was the beginning.