bishop in California took on a local woman running for the state legislature in the 1990s, and denied her the Eucharist. Folks, we are not talking about political patronage here. The Eucharist, the Body of Christ, is not a light matter.
I am not Roman Catholic, but we Orthodox Christians have a similar understanding of the reality of what we partake in the Liturgy and Mass.
My Catholic wife has a better heart that do I; she weeps over the mess. I scream and curse.
Both of us see this as more than a political issue.
I think a lot of Catholics are just fed up with this situation. I heard Cardinal George on
Catholic Answers today, and while the callers were respectful to him, they were obviously frustrated with the bishops' apparent refusal to just deal with this issue, instead of forming more committees to issue more reports, while sitting on their hands, as babies are murdered.