text: I agree that the magisterium has condemned racism emphatically, but forcefully? Sadly, I've concluded that the Church has largely surrendered whatever capital it once had as a moral force in the world today by failing to keep its own house in order regarding myriad justice issues, and also by inserting itself time and again into electoral politics. 
  
  I say this with no pleasure. I remember when the Church did have a forceful voice. I lament the loss of that.