This, for me, adds to my perception of the astonishing and viral "end-justifies-the-means" mind-set that has been widely adopted among the so-called "pro-life" far rightists. I have experienced locally the half-truths about Catholic teaching circulated by LifeSiteNews and CatholicVote and it saddens me that these propaganda mills are not throttled down by the bishops' conference. Perhaps this phenomenon is in reality a careful contrivance by which our hierarchy insists that "Catholics are not single-issue voters" out of one side of their mouths while in effect supporting that very notion by their tacit silence during the 2016 presidential campaign. This does not spell moral authority--particularly alongside the other debacles the American church has gotten itself into.