text: I think there are a few individual bishops who will speak against the travesty that the Republicans are trying to pass off as a health care bill. (It is merely an act to provide tax relief to the very rich at the expense of nearly everyone else.)  However, there is little reason to think that the Conference will, or even  can, speak credibly to this issue.  Too many of them individually threw in with Trump and other Republican candidates.  They must apologize for anything they did, or failed to do, that contributed to Trump's election.
  The "Fortnight for Freedom" -- a colossal waste of time, money and resources that belong to the People of God -- is symbolic of the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of the Conference. When they abandon that embarrassing exercise in hypocrisy, they may be able to begin to reclaim some credibility.  On the other hand, it may be too late.