[blanknoone]

The problem lies in the Church hierarchy's cowardice in the face of its liberal lay people. The Church is cowardly avoiding confronting Kerry for fear of losing its tenuous hold on so many cafeteria Catholics. They would love to denounce Kerry...but afraid of what living up to their principles would do to them. What the Church needs to understand is that their appeasement of evil will drive good Catholics from the fold as much as confronting evil will drive bad Catholics from the fold.

[conservativehistorian]

Excellent point! I hope the bishops realize that their previous cowardice in the face of the homosexual-abuse scandal brought them nothing but ridicule and lawsuits. One can only hope and pray that they have learned from their past mistakes, but I have no confidence that they will choose the principled response to Kerry.