Change must come from the grassroots and it will happen, like anything positive in American Catholicism, over the heads of the bishops.
The score form the last US bishop conference when the pro-death "Catholic" politicians were discussed was something like 7 honest bishops out of 200. So it is clear who this plea for unity designed to help.
When lay Catholics get tired of the Eucharist being profaned, things will change.
"When lay Catholics get tired of the Eucharist being profaned, things will change."
I must respectfully disagree. Things will change when enough Catholics vote with their feet and their pocketbooks. The problems in the Catholic church are primarily in the institutional churches, not with the community in worship.
I just hope that when Catholics do choose to vote with their feet and pocketbooks, that they'll choose to treat themselves to a nice, long vacation on the eastern shore of the Tiber.