[backwoods-engineer]

I’m not Catholic, and I agree with this. The bishops are very influential.

[pgyanke]

The worst thing is we lose. The next worst thing is we win and the bishops stay on the sidelines. It’s terrible to contemplate what that will do to their credibility and the image of the Church. They must speak out because it is the truth!

[Secret Agent Man]

they are

but in all honesty

american catholics simply do not care what their bishops, cardinals, and popes say IF THEY DISAGREE WITH IT

we have all met plenty of this stripe, we have them in our families, as relatives

we know they are going to do what they are going to do

and we know this by their continued support of these things

most noticeably homosexual perversion

they either have ‘friends’ or sons or daughters doing this and can’t and won’t reject it, and in fact some champion it

and so itmgoes with abortion as well

[Jonny7797]

Yeah, I seriously doubt it. Abortion is here to stay like it or not.

The most we can hope for is the Supreme’s overturn RvW and properly rule it’s a states decision.

then you’ll see 30 or 40 states ban abortion and the rest will allow it.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I’m not Catholic, and I agree with this. The bishops are very influential.

I am Catholic, and I'll say "not like they used to be".

Decades of dithering and equivocating on serious moral issues, combined with the shameful cover-ups on behalf of pedophiles, have seriously tarnished them, and diminished their influence. Obama essentially declared war on the Church with his birth control mandate and they didn't raise a peep about it.

[forgotten man]

The local Catholic bishop in my area is telling Catholics that climate change is the ONLY issue that matters in this election. He does not care about abortion. He is as bad as the Pope.