The Catholic Moment?

Do you remember CatholicVote’s book from 2024: For God, Country, and Sanity?

Remember the subtitle: “How Catholics Can Save America.”

Well, here we are…

This past weekend Left-leaning POLITICO published a big story on Catholics and the new Trump administration. The title: “The Catholics in Trump’s administration could take GOP in whole new direction.”

By their count, President Trump has already nominated a dozen Catholics to prominent positions. From J.D. Vance, to Marco Rubio, to Sean Duffy, Tom Homan, Karoline Leavitt, RFK Jr., and more.

Normally, political reporters treat faithful Catholics like lab specimens in a petri dish. 

But Sunday’s article was fair… and important.

When the reporter called me, I explained that Catholics in the new administration are not interested in identity politics or some sectarian agenda. For Catholics, the purpose of politics is to create the conditions for people to flourish – the common good. 

And right now, too many people in our country are not flourishing – especially families.

Which is why the coming Trump era represents a massive opportunity…

Roe v. Wade is gone. Our country voted overwhelmingly to restore order to our border, to invest in American workers, and to rebuild the ties that bond – faith, family, community, and country. November’s election was directional. Americans pulled the emergency brake. They sensed something was deeply wrong with the road we were on – and they voted to change course.

Let’s face it: The packed MAGA rallies were not about tax cuts. Or tinkering with trivialities. They were about renewing the foundations of our country that are now frayed and withering after years of so-called progressive dominance (often bipartisan) that sought to remake the country and our culture.

Everything is now on the table. 

Every golden calf of government, partisan politics, and every assumption about policy and personnel should be examined – and transformed if necessary. From education policy, to family policy, to government waste and abuse, to economic priorities – to making marriage, children, and religion great again. 

We have no other choice.

And here’s where the “Catholic” part becomes critical.

In politics, they say that “personnel is policy.” It’s not enough to have the right ideas – you need people of conviction who will fight for those ideas. People with courage and creativity to re-imagine what politics is all about. 

Like what?

• Massive investments in families having children. Nations on our birthrate trajectory are dying. We need a new baby boom. One way to help: Increasing the child tax credit to $5,000 or more (as Sen. Hawley just proposed this week).
• Real schools, real choices – everywhere. The Department of Education should be eliminated, along with the woke bureaucrats that have ruined the lives of too many children. Huge tax credits should be offered to parents to send their children to the best schools – of their choice.
• A secure border that ends the exploitation of migrants and protects American workers.
• Economic policies that end unfair tariffs, create a massive energy boom, make gas more affordable, make American industry competitive, and yes, create a government surplus that can begin paying down our massive debt.
• Make America moral again. Restrict pornography. End transgender experiments on kids. Create unprecedented new support for pregnant women to help them choose life.
• Make America healthy again. Protect conscience. Stop the bullies trying to destroy Catholic healthcare. Tell the truth about COVID, vaccines, food, and more. Put our children first.
• Celebrate America’s 250th birthday – and the role of faith. Starting next year, President Trump has promised to launch a year-long celebration in anticipation of July 4, 2026 – America’s Semiquincentennial Celebration. Parades, festivals, a world’s fair in Iowa – even a religious revival highlighting the role of faith in American history.

This isn’t just a wish list. All of this is possible.

And this is just the start.

Near the end of the POLITICO article, I said this:

 “…[F]or Catholics, we say, well, wait, no there’s something much richer and deeper and more profound about what it means to be human that we need to recapture.”

President Trump has put together an all-star team that understands this.

Together with them – and YOU! – CatholicVote is ready to get to work.