To his credit, McElroy treads where most clerics will fear to follow, even if a venue like the CTU which will be more critical than an adoring KofC crowd to a bishop.
Easy to be a "darling of the talk circuit" when most bishops are unwilling to step outside their adulating Catholic bubble to speak in more challenging venues, especially totally secular. Not sure even if McE. has spoken in any of these?
How did McE make it to bishop?
How few like him among clerical ranks?
Ultimately, wherever a bishop speaks focus should be more on action than words; be ye not hearers of the words but doers. 
But action is where "rubber hits the road." 
Blah, blah, blah is safer.
Or, as that great musical theologian Eliza Dootlittle observed, "Don't tell me, show me!"