In politics, it's said, the
perception of power amounts to power itself. If that's the case, then
the political power of the U.S. Catholic Bishops has long been based on
little more than perception, that of an all-powerful church, an idea too
often advanced by a corporate media romanced by the clerics' silken
vestments and those great stone piles in which they preach. But among
the people of the church, the bishops' pronouncements on matters of sex
and politics don't amount to a hill of beans.
Politicians
and media have long known this, but the perception remained that there
was a "Catholic vote," one the bishops could deliver, even if those
voters ignored the bishops' backward sexual edicts. But the events of
the past week reveal that the bishops command no one, not even the
leaders of Catholic institutions. READ MORE
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