It's less WHAT the Bishops talk about and more HOW they talk about issues. It's not so much the ENDS they advance but the MEANS they commend. The problem has less to do with GOALS and more to do with STRATEGIES.

They overinvest in the hard powers of rhetorical confrontation and political & legal COERCION at the expense of such soft powers as dialogical engagement, formative spirituality and moral enculturation, in other words, evangelical PERSUASION.

More fundamentally, their social justice teachings find more traction in both the lives of the faithful and the public square because the moral methodology stands on firmer anthropological ground with its robust personalism & relationality - responsibility model. Their teachings regarding gender, sex & personal morality suffer from an impoverished natural law philosophy, which lacks the personalist insights. Thus lacking persuasive influence, they're going to draw a different level & type of attention fr faithful & in the public square.