WASHINGTON D.C.
National Catholic Reporter

October 12, 2018

by Michael Sean Winters

“Antistite nostro Donaldo.” For more than 10 years, from the time of his installation as Archbishop of Washington in 2006, until my moving out of the archdiocese in 2017, every Sunday at Mass, I softly repeated these words as the priest said them in the Roman Canon. “For our bishop Donald,” I prayed them on the days I could not borrow a car to get to the 10 a.m. Latin Mass at St. Matthew’s and I had to walk to the suburban church near my house. Over that time, those words went from something rote and obligatory to something personal and powerful, though still obligatory. We Catholics pray for our pope and our bishop at every Mass. The Communion at the altar is intrinsically related to the communion of persons that is the church, indeed they are…