“This country’s founding commitments to equality and human rights have no foundation apart from this belief in a Creator who endows men and women with inalienable rights.

“This country’s founding commitments to equality and human rights have no foundation apart from this belief in a Creator who endows men and women with inalienable rights,” the head of the nation’s largest diocese, and president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, wrote on the eve of election day. “That is why the indifference toward religion in American public life and the marginalizing of religious believers is so disturbing. And that is why even beyond this election, our mission as the Church and our duty as Catholics remains bigger than politics.”