The US Catholic bishops will never recover their credibility until they renounce and remove any of those bishops who voted to exempt themselves from their own charter in Dallas, 2002 USCCB meeting.
 
Some two-thirds of our 2002 bishops were guilty of covering up. None quit (but +Law fled).

Thus their weakness, their silence on hard moral truths (unpopular here, sure, but still true), and their shilling for taxpayer funding because, as Bp. Kicanas admits, voluntary donations "tanked" after the scandals.

They will never recover as long as they hide the truth. They blame "money-hungry lawyers" while going to the government cash cow for more, fawning in the lap of their paymasters. 

If we won't give voluntarily, by golly, then they'll make charity mandatory!

This is indeed the Age of the Laity – our bishops have abdicated their role but not their office. How many souls will be lost due to their malfeasance?

Prayer and fasting on our part is only answer, alas.