text: There is such an enormous disconnect between what bishops think matters and what the laith think about, what motivates them, what interests them, what inspires them.  The fact that they were going to let the the working group on immigration go out of existence and make the committee on their "religious liberty" become permanent.  Their concern was for their own ability to wield power.  So very Republican!
  
  The big difference now in how bishops treat those who work at Catholic affiliated institutions is that most of them are laity, not nuns, brothers, priests.  More, they are Catholics much more used to thinking for themselves and making their own moral decisions within a framework of Catholicism but not as children blindly following some supposed holy rules.  The bishops can't treat lay employees the same way they treated vowed religious.  
  
  Religious freedom also belongs to those who work for Catholic organizations.  Where are their rights?