text: RE: Boston Globe commentary: "For some Catholics, endorsements from the pulpit don't work"
  
  The author is right on target.  In fact, prelate pulpit political endorsements imply that the laity are too stupid and spiritually vapid to sort out complex issues for themselves,  and should instead obey the voting dictate of the local bishop... a man whose first and only allegiance is to Rome, not U.S. representative democracy.   I've watched our own local bishop happily go down the rightwing culture war rabbit hole of conspiracy theory more than once while issuing letters on how to vote on issues and candidates.  His tunnel vision and lack of regard for complexity is astonishing.   The olds days of blind obedience to prelates are over...  it's no wonder that certain retro-bishops and their followers long to return to the 1940s and 50s... no one would actually have to learn and think.