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I've always been willing to wait and see too, but I believe this thing with Pelosi is a bit of a different animal; while the likes of Kennedy, Kerry, Durbin and Mikulski shuck their faith on and off to serve themselves and their needs, Pelosi is actually trying to change the mindset of American Catholics as being a force for the pro-life cause. Pelosi offers a "Catholic alternative".

Now those who might otherwise be sympathetic or wishy washy do not have someone who is simply and quietly disobeying the Church's authority, they have someone who is leading them in the opposite direction from Church teaching and telling them that they are also within their right to defy the Church.

I've taken some flak from pro-lifers for not outright condemning bishops who refuse the Eucharist to politicians who vote against positions of our faith. I would very much like to "wait and see" and give the benefit of the doubt to people like McCarrick, who have given their lives over as servants to God and to our Church, however the absence of any kind effective pro-life statement from Bishop Wuerl really causes me to wonder about him.

Our former Bishop Burke, now in St. Louis, caught a lot of grief by really letting these "Catholic pro-choice" politicians not to bother coming to communion because of their stance.

I appreciated his stand for the faith of the church.

Well, you make some good points. I'm willing to wait and see because the Archbishop may possibly have misunderstood the situation or may have been somewhat misreported.

But I won't wait too long. If this becomes a pattern, then he is going to lose the support of faithful Catholics in the Church.

If, as Sitetest says, he will be the speaker at the next pro-life rally, then sooner or later, and preferably sooner, he is going to have to decide whether he will speak up for the Catholic faith of which he is a shepherd, or whether he will fail to do his public duty.

This isn't easy. The Archbishop of Washington, DC, is obviously under more political pressure than most. But that just means that the bishop has to stand up more than most to the pressures of his job. He's going to be in the spotlight, and we'll soon see what kind of a job he does.