text: Where were they?  Did I miss it?  Couldn't one bishop make it to Washington to show the importance of the fight for justice?  At some point, the  bishops will have to stop hiding in the bushes and show themselves as a part of the struggles we are in right now - for justice, for fair treatment, for the preferential option for the poor.  They are absent from story.  
  
  But, it is important that our Catholic vowed religious and Catholic activists were there.  That is where real leadership resides - right in the story, in front, visible, giving hope, inspiring.