text: Regarding: "Bishop Frank Dewane of Venice, Florida, chairman of the U.S. Bishops' Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, called on Congress to recognize that public financing should be "an instrument of development and solidarity.""
  - This is a good article. The USCCB position is presented well.
  - What the laity need to ensure though is that the government does not see the contribution of the USCCB as anything more than the contributions of 330 or so individual voters. That is, because of separation of church from the state these ideas have to be affirmed by other voters -- almost all of whom are laic -- before the ideas can 'cross the Potomac' to be considered by civil government.
  - No more can the citizens of the USA allow USCCB and other catholic bishop associations to act as lobbyists. Though, if such associations must, they can act as research / think - tanks or, because these groups are incorporated, as single corporations.