More than thirty years ago, the US bishops took a detour from the road of "Catholic social teaching."   But now we know that the infamous "trickle-down" economic theories do not work!  Meanwhile, our bishops continue to act as though they do!   What's more, the priests who actively espoused "Catholic social teaching" are mostly long gone -- marginalized, silenced, safely in their graves.  And those same bishops are still brutalizing clergy sex abuse victims and trying to stomp out SNAP, to avoid being (fully) accountable to us.  Even now, McElroy is being marginalized by his peers, and O'Malley has way too much on his plate!  Over the next four years, the bishops will continue to be like the GOP Congress under McConnell and Ryan -- what we really need are one-term bishops!