Bill Donohue: Bishops Speaking Out About Obama Unprecedented

By Dan Gilgoff, God & Country

I'm getting E-mails from liberal and conservative Roman Catholics echoing my dubiousness toward the theory that the silent majority of U.S. Catholic bishops are embarrassed by conservative bishops' outspokenness on developments like President Obama's recent Notre Dame address.

Here's a note from conservative Catholic League President Bill Donohue regarding the bishops who piped up about Notre Dame:

The real story here is not that most [bishops] said nothing, it's about the 80 or so who spoke out. In my 16 years in this job, I have never seen that many bishops go public about an issue like this. In any event, from my perspective, we have more bishops willing to speak out now on matters that conservative Catholics want them to address than we've seen in a very, very long time. The '60s was a decade in transition, the '70s and '80s were ruled by liberal bishops, the '90s was a decade in transition, and now it's the conservative bishops who are leading the flock.

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