This list is excellent, and has links to all the diocese contact email addresses in the nation. It's an excellent resource for anyone wishing to respectfully urge greater participation by bishops nationwide. Really, this is a "stand and be counted" issue.
There's more than one side to Internet activism.
I am just finishing my own letter to my own bishop. I will include that in my ping, in case anybody needs my rather hot words to inspire them.
We ALL need to contact OUR OWN BISHOPS.
Well heck, I'm still refining it, but here's the most of it.
April 8, 2009
Bishop Richard Stika
Diocese of Knoxville
805 S Northshore Dr
Knoxville, TN 37919
Dear and Beloved Bishop Stika,
I was pleased to attend your ordination as Bishop of the Diocese of Knoxville on St. Joseph’s Day. I joyfully offer you my love and loyalty as one of your spiritual daughters.
It seems rather dreadful that I should make your acquaintance, so to speak, and then immediately write you a letter of awful anxiety and concern: but I must pour out my soul: please, dear Bishop, make a quick prayer to the Holy Spirit and then read this with kindness and understanding.
Since this November, President Obama has raced ahead on many fronts simultaneously to compel financial support for abortion and other heinous practices; to crush conscience rights; and ultimately, I believe, to bring about the moral and institutional dissolution of the Catholic Church in America.
I will not complicate this letter with the huge amount of documentation I have at hand. I trust you already know this to be true.
Having followed Mr. Obama’s career, I expected this. But I have been stunned by the rapidity of his assault. I have been straining every muscle to help alert Catholics and other persons of good will to the full implications of Mr. Obama’s aggressive agenda.
What dismay, then, when I heard that the University of Notre Dame plans to confer upon Mr. Obama one of the choicest honors that a Catholic institution can to bestow: an honorary Doctorate of Law!
Holy Mother of God!
In the light of the USCCB statement that no Catholic institution is to give such honors to those who defy fundamental moral norms, I looked for the USCCB to respond immediately with firm and unequivocal condemnation, and with sanctions to make that condemnation real.
"The Catholic community and Catholic institutions should not honor those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles. They should not be given awards, honors or platforms which would suggest support for their actions."
Catholics in Political Life - United States Conference of Catholic Bishops]
But where was the response?
There are 260 active bishops in the USA. Over 90% of them have said not one word about this.
I thank God for the 24 who have. (Excerpts of their remarks are on the attached sheet.)
Who could write tranquilly about the sickening realization that most of the bishops do not apparently even take their own so-called “resolutions” seriously?
I’m welling up with tears as I write; and, my dear father in Christ, it’s not just me.
I know Catholics who are just going to church and crying about this. Sitting in a pew, or kneeling before Our Lord in their parish Adoration Chapel, and just crying.
What can we do? Good Christ, what can we do? Where are our Bishops?
What can I do but direct my grief and my need to you, my own, my newly fledged Bishop.
Four days ago, the U.S. Senate rejected Senator Coburn's proposed medical-conscience amendment to the budget bill on Thursday, April 3. By the time you receive this letter, President Obama will have rescinded the HHS regulations recognizing the conscience rights of ethical, pro-life healthcare providers, both individual and institutions.
The situation is grim.
Mr. Obama’s strategy is to exploit every fissure to bring down the whole Church. Obama's cynical use of Notre Dame is part of this strategy, and Notre Dame is not just falling, they are leaping into this.
This portends the moral and institutional destruction of the Catholic Church in America. Not all at once, and yet with a rapidity that amazes me. Not entirely by frontal assault, but by a barrage of executive, legislative and judicial challenges large and small, by stealth, and by seduction.
You were anointed to Prophet and Shepherd -- to teach, govern, and sanctify.
You were given that crozier for a reason: to protect the lambs and dismay the wolves --- and not the other way around.
Now the battle is raging at Notre Dame. Now is the time for a prophetic word---from ALL our bishops.
Please, Bishop Stika. Please --- speak out now.
In Christ our God,
[signed]
CC: Mr. Paul Simoneau
Diocesan Office of Justice and Peace