I want to express by paraphrasing what my priest said at Mass the day Reagan died, it was a small weekday Mass with the usual attendees.
He said Reagan was divorced and remarried, whose father was
a lapsed Catholic, and ex wife was Catholic, so if politics and religion went together as some people like to think they should, Reagan would have been someone for Catholics to not vote for.
But Reagan did his job, as president, protecting our freedom to practice Catholicism, and for that, he deserves praise and respect.
With some notable, though gradually fading exceptions, ever since God has been gradually diminished from public discourse and national affairs, it’s been steadily downhill for America.