Send in the Indian

Heh. Bishop Chaput is going to Philly to settle the mess there.

Having worked with the IHS, I am familiar with him, since he was active with the Kateri conferences (for Native American Catholics) for years, even before he became bishop of Rapid City.

NCR interview here...a 1997 interview here comments on his spirituality:

“There's a great convergence between my Franciscan vocation and Native American spirituality,” Archbishop Chaput said, explaining that both traditions have a great reverence and natural humility before God and creation, a willingness to sacrifice for the community and respect for elders and others.

First Things has a list of his secular articles HERE.
Chaput on the role of organized religion in the US:

Religion has also played another key role. Individuals, on their own, have very little power in dealing with the state. But communities, and especially religious communities, have a great deal of power in shaping attitudes and behavior. Churches are one of the mediating institutions, along with voluntary associations, fraternal organizations, and especially the family, that stand between the power of the state and the weakness of individuals. They’re crucial to the “ecology” of American life as we have traditionally understood it.

And that’s why, if you dislike religion or resent the Catholic Church, or just want to reshape American life into some new kind of experiment, you need to use the state to break the influence of the Church and her ministries.

Keep him in your prayers...anyone who takes on the NYTimes for misquoting him is not going to be popular in today's media...