IMO it gets far, far worse. I can't name a single US bishop (I'm looking at you, Chaput and Gomez) that has charted a different course on the hottest political/religious issues in our day (immigration, health care, communion for pro-abort pols) that runs counter to what Dolan has already done. I do not think there are any "conservative" Catholic bishops in the USA, as Free Republic would define "conservative".
Correct me if I'm wrong, but please give specific examples if you do.
Check out #29: are there any bishops who are actually NOT Kennedy-Cuomo Catholics?
Talking issues, it would make sense to distinguish between two distinct, but broad and often overlapping and entangled categories: the "political/religious" issues, where there are some moral boundaries but no one right "doctrinal" path and you're dealing with prudential judgment (immigration, govt. health insurance per se); and the "moral/canonical" issues where there are sharp prohibitions and exceptionless norms (formal or proximate material cooperation in abortion, euthanasia, etc., sacrilegious administration of Sacraments.)
This last one, Canon 915, is both exceptionally grave and exceptionally clear-cut. To my knowledge, although maybe a dozen bishops have "admonished" obstinate offenders like Pelosi and Biden not to approach for Communion, only a very few are actually refusing Communion, which is what the Canon clearly mandates. The bishops of the three Kansas dioceses evidently gave a harrumph to some nameless parish priest in Kansas who gave Sebelius Communion. So that's something. But even considering that, action on the biggest most apodictic Big One can be rounded off to zero.
Any glimmers of diamonds in this sewer? Bruskewitz? Cordileone? --- what say ye, Salvation? Dr. Brian?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but please give specific examples if you do.
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco. Pray for him.