Dear Friends,             What to say about the conclusion of a divisive election season? What to say about a victory marked by “brazen appeals to nativism, racism, and misogyny” (New York Times); a campaign fueled by the demonization of migrants and refugees (“animals,” “vermin”); punctuated by violent threats of retribution against political rivals (“the enemy within)”—all in pursuit of “Making America Great Again”?             In his speech before Congress almost ten years ago Pope Francis offered a very different vision of what makes a nation great. As he observed, “A nation can be considered great when it defends liberty as Lincoln did, when it fosters a culture which enables people to ‘dream’ of full rights for all their brothers and sisters, as Martin Luther King...