For 50 years, Fran Maier has offered many gifts to the Catholic Church. One of them is his clear-eyed vision of things as they really are…..

In the past 25 years, few duos in the U.S. Catholic Church have been more dynamic and adept at identifying its problems and tackling its big challenges than Archbishop Charles Chaput and Francis X. Maier, his longtime senior adviser. The pair’s collaborations included launching dynamic lay apostolates, primarily during their time together in the Archdiocese of Denver…