[A.A. Cunningham]

You make the common mistake of blaming the entire Church for the behavior of individuals within the Church. Is the Bishop who placed Sebelius under an interdict responsible for the failure of the Bishop in San Francisco for not doing the same to Pelosi? Generalizing is an oft used tactic of the left.

Yet what has the Catholic church done to punish these political elite? Nothing.

Correction: Yet what have some Bishops done to punish these political elite? In some cases nothing.

If you're consistent, you blame the 63,298,164 who cast ballots for someone other than Soetoro in 2012 for his being in the oval office.

[OneWingedShark]

If you're consistent, you blame the 63,298,164 who cast ballots for someone other than Soetoro in 2012 for his being in the oval office.

What? that makes no sense.

>   Yet what has the Catholic church done to punish these political elite? Nothing.

Correction: Yet what have some Bishops done to punish these political elite? In some cases nothing.

No, it's more than just bishops: hell, Pelosi went to the Pope (regarding abortion, IIRC) and did he excommunicate her? No.
What about these Bishops's own superiors: shouldn't they reprimand them?

As far as I can see there's no real consequence for being pro-abortion in the Catholic church. (Not that there aren't a lot of similar problems in Protestant churches; but this thread is about "a majority of Catholics support[ing] abortion.")

[piusv]

Then why doesn’t the leadership of the Catholic Church make responses to these folks a mandatory, universal response? As long as it allows certain bishops to choose when scandal and sacrilege is okay, I most certainly do blame it. As long as these folks are able to receive communion at a papal mass for crying out loud, I most certainly blame it.

Something’s broken and it needs a-fixing.

Given all of that, that doesn’t mean we, as laity, aren’t partly to blame too.