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Maureen Mullarkey is a painter who writes on art and culture. She is a senior contributor to The Federalist and keeps the weblog Studio Matters. Her essays have appeared in various publications, among them: The Nation, Crisis, Commonweal, Hudson Review, Arts, Newsday, The New Criterion, The Magazine Antiques, American Arts Quarterly and The Weekly Standard. She was fired by First Things for the same reason she was hired: pungent writing.
A tragic fault line runs through the approach of the American bishops to the 2016 election. On one side lies their traditional sympathy for immigration, extended now to embrace what amounts to open-borders and a reluctance to distinguish between legal…