Actually, I don't know if he did or not. I don't have a particular complaint about Cardinal Maida (other than his refusal to point out Ms. Granholm by name and rebuke her for misleading the public on Catholic teaching - but that was a question of his methods, not his orthodoxy).
I know there are other bishops who would have let the matter go without mention. And I fear priests like Fr. Ortman may some day be elevated to bishop themselves. It's whole dioceses full of Ortmans that worry me.
To those of you in orthodox parishes this may sound paranoid. But try hopping from church to church several Sundays in a row and having difficulty finding a Church that wasn't, if not explicitly heretical, certainly hostile to Catholic doctrine (and I'm not talking about felt banners). You begin to realize you're not looking at an isolated renegade priest here or there.
We get Catholicism by passing it to our children. "Let George do it" doesn't work except in Chicago.
That is certainly true. But Catholicism was never meant to be a private religion that took place only in the home. It was supposed to encompass our public prayer life as well. The Catholic parish is supposed to be at the center of that.