Someone has to say it publicly: The Holy Father does not understand the Catholic Church in the United States and he is doing her great harm. In an interview published June 14, he said, “there are many ‘restorers’ in the United States who do not accept the Second Vatican Council. . . . Restorationism has come to gag the Council. The number of groups of ‘restorers’—for example, in the United States there are many—is significant.” The Holy Father’s remarks are baffling to just about anyone, other than the ideologically blinded, who knows the Church in the U.S. Unfortunately, he has said something along these lines enough times that it can no longer be excused as some slip of language. It is clear he believes this.