Even Weigel can’t bring himself to speak plainly. Their “communion with the Church is severely damaged”?
They are bitter, fallen-away Catholics who have become overt persecutors of the Church. They are in no way in communion with the Catholic Church. They are in no sense “Catholics” except in the barest juridical sense of having been baptized.
Most of the bishops in the U.S. will NEVER make a pronouncement to this effect.
Because they are playing politics with Church doctrine to get all they can from Government.
The Church placed themselves in this position. They pushed Obamacare, and they are pushing Amnesty. Both will come back and bite them.