“These are the times of challenge when the wine growers need to work together. We tend to blame each other, and the level of our discourse can sometimes be shrill and caustic and uneven.”

Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick preached those wise words at the annual Red Mass on the Sunday before the Supreme Court’s new session. “What happens in the vineyard can happen to us in public life,” he cautioned. “We must be careful that we do not bring damage to the vineyard and harm to the wine growers.”