JPII doesn't believe in Catholic Dogma?
Bishops are free to refuse the Eucharist if they choose; that's what the USCCB statement said. It's a prudential judgment, especially in an election year.
The USCCB statement was as forceful a statement as could be issued, without a direct confrontation. The idea that 183 bishops (some very consevertive bishops)are all somehow corrupt on this issue is just nuts.
No,no,no.
JPII has done the Lords work but he no longer has the voice to speak out forcefully. His time, sadly, is past. He is a great man and great Catholic but time has passed him by. It happens to us all.
A new younger Pope can speak out forcefully. What we have now is American Bishops taking a "pro choice" stance vis a vis abortion. Kerry and others can choose to support unlimited abortion laws and still receive the Holy Eucharist. That is the ideology of pro choicers. The Catholic Church really can not be seen to be moving in that direction.
It would split the church IMHO.