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Here's the scorecard. The cowards outnumber the courageous 5-4 so far. And what about the middle? Is it indifferent?

Advocates of denying Communion to formal heretics:

Archbishop John Myers of Newark, New Jersey
Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz, of Lincoln, Nebraska
Bishop Joseph Galante of Camden, New Jersey
Archbishop Charles Chaput, O.F.M. Cap, of Denver, Colorado

Those refusing to deny Communion to formal heretics:

Archbishop Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, of Washington, D.C.
Cardinal Roger Cardinal Mahony, of Los Angeles, California
Bishop Howard Hubbard, of Albany, New York
Archbishop Sean O'Malley, O.F.M., of Boston, Massachusetts
Archbishop Daniel Pilarcyzk, of Cincinnati, Ohio

From the article:

So, too, have been Archbishop John Myers of Newark, New Jersey, Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz, of Lincoln, Nebraska, Bishop Joseph Galante of Camden, New Jersey, Archbishop Charles Chaput, O.F.M. Cap, of Denver, Colorado, in making statements of varying degrees of firmness concerning the sacrilege committed against the Most Blessed Sacrament by Catholics in public life who support the destruction of innocent human beings under cover of law...
On the other side of the fence, though, there are the usual suspects who believe that the Eucharist should never be used to "penalize" anyone...
Among the bishops on this side of the facade of collegiality are: Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, the Archbishop of Washington, D.C., Roger Cardinal Mahony, Bishop Howard Hubbard, Archbishop Sean O'Malley, O.F.M., the Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts, and Archbishop Daniel Pilarcyzk, the Archbishop of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Missing from the lists is my own Cardinal Rigali. We are praying that he will take a principled stance soon. We have plenty of pro-abortion congressmen and state reps here in the Philadelphia area.

Unfortunately, some of the more notorious offenders are now grandparents. I believe there would have been a more positive immediate effect if some action had been taken while these men still had children attending the parochial schools - and just about all of them did too, since the Philly public schools are such cess pools. Embarassment from the children's teachers and peers could possibly have kept these men on the straight and narrow.

Am I missing something or are you? What about the Archbishop of St. Louis Raymond Burke? I thought he was one of the first,it not the first.