Bishop DeLorenzo's statement has been edited here.   The statement includes the very Trumpian phraseology, "I pray that those men and women on both sides can talk and seek solutions to their differences respectfully."
No excellency, it is not possible to "talk to and seek solutions" to those who would march through the streets with (tiki) torches, the flag of the Third Reich and the Confederate battle flag.  Further, it was not the counter-protesters who were mowed down in the street while they exercised their 1st Amendment right to peaceable assembly.  While rooting around for moral equivalency between the Alt-Right and the Antifa (google it, it started in Germany to counter the neo-Nazis), the good bishops should always remember the warning from Edmund Burke, that all it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.

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