Our first article [in this issue], “Illusions of Influence: Clerical Partisan Engagement During the 2022 Elections,” by moral theologian Rev. Fr. Eric Marcelo Genilo, S.J., is an attempt to draw the line between the duty of the Church to form the consciences of the faithful in order to help them make prudent political choices, and what he calls “public partisan political activity.” Analyzing last year’s elections, he applies key distinctions, such as the difference between “political rejection” and “political endorsement” to evaluate the political involvement of some clergy. In this incisive essay, he observes “a disturbing disconnection between church leaders and ordinary citizens regarding assessing political candidates,” resulting in the dilution, if not drowning, of the Church’s “prophetic voice.” He warns that “when a cleric engages actively in campaigning for a candidate, there is a conflation between the cleric’s identity as a representative of the Church and his partisan political advocacy.” Thus, he comes to the rather bold but perhaps prophetic opinion that “The CBCP should have known better than to allow public political partisan activity by the clergy during the last elections.”