text: Why do the pope and the USCCB have to tell people to marry and why has the USCCB chosen this as some kind of priority? It's overstepping.
  
  Mind you, the Church has singled out heterosexual couples who marry for the privilege of sacrament. The never-married mother who avoided an abortion and went on to have her baby--where's her sacrament? If I were still a Catholic, I'd be asking where my sacrament is too. I think it's probably off-putting to so many people how some arrangements are privileged, dignified, and sanctified and the rest of us just schlep along despite the fact that we often have similar obligations. 
  
  The articles NCR has also been running on San Diego's synod and their attempt to name and dignify all the people who don't fall into the "married category" is a wonderful first step, something the pope and the USCCB should listen to.