Making non-for-profit associations pay tax on an equal footing with for-profit businesses is probably never going to fly, and I’d argue it wouldn’t be to the social good anyway. We want people to be able to form voluntary associations without being treated as businesses. But … you could definitely make an argument that a Church intruding into politics is breaking the rules society agreed to in granting them tax-exempt status. Right now, the archbishop isn’t breaking any IRS rules. But perhaps we should look at those rules carefully and ask how they could be better structured to keep churches more firmly distanced from politics.

Of course, that will be not be possible without an overwhelming Democratic majority in Congress, especially the Senate, and probably not without significant Supreme Court reform as well. It’s more than difficult to imagine the current court allowing restrictions on religious tax exemption in almost any circumstance.