Regarding: "At a time when the country desperately needs a strong moral voice, the united voice of the bishops is sidelined, fretting about things that don't matter and tepidly addressing the things that do."
- I expect that you mean 'corporate moral voice'. However the strong moral voice, needs to come from catholic citizens, not bishops alone, and not by bishops posturing as if they speak for catholic citizens.  The USCCB has already shown that it can be a 'moral voice' contra catholic citizenry in how they responded to the ACA. So, I am not sure that had there been a 'strong moral voice' from the USCCB it would do much good.