This week's “Catholics for Dreamers” rally in Washington DC was excruciatingly painful to watch. Granted, I watched Tuesday's events unfold from my smartphone on a train from New York to Boston. But, judging by the reports, there were many grey heads. Don’t get me wrong: seniors have as much a right to protest as millennials. But the whole thing seems to have turned into an exercise in baby-boomer nostalgia. Take Fr Thomas Reese’s column, “Tomorrow I Plan to Get Arrested”. (It has since been updated to reflect the fact that he was, indeed, arrested.) In it, he wrote:
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'Catholics for Dreamers': a painful exercise in 1960s nostalgia
The protesters seemed more intent on play-acting as radicals than changing minds
Michael Warren Davis

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