text: I expect about as much moral leadership from the USCCB as I do from my cat. They are all stuck on auto-pilot, the result of three and a half decades of two ultra-conservative popes breathing down their backs and telling them exactly what to think. Now that a new sheriff's in town expecting them to think for themselves they don't know what to do - they're like wind-up toys that are all laying around waiting for someone else to come along and wind them up again. Unless the subject is abortion, homosexuality, or contraception, nothing seems to wind them up so they sit there inert like a bunch of rocks. And yes, in theory it would be wonderful if they could suddenly find a new voice and exercise some moral leadership for a change. But as MSW points out, that will probably only happen once a ton of new blood is pumped in by new Pope Francis appointees. But that will take decades. Until then it's just business as usual in Indianapolis, and no one outside of Catholic circles will even notice.