The Church has gotta engage.  I actually agree with Fr. N more than I disagree with him, particularly about the relationship between the Church and politics.  We’re aligned on methods even if we often disagree on substance.

The Church is not merely a voluntary association of the spiritually like-minded catering to the indulgence of private sensibilities in one of Babylon’s many enclaves of choice. The Church is the Body of Christ through time proposing to the world the new creation inaugurated in his cross and resurrection and promised return. Whether against, above, in paradox, or transforming, she is always critically engaged—never surrendering to the cultural captivity that is the delusion of “Christ without culture.”