text: The USCCB election results will continue to be meaningless to the body Catholic. The bishops have been ignored in general by the laity for a number of decades now for numerous reasons, wayward priests and the subsequent cover-ups of those priests the likely top two.
  
  Then there is the overall ignoring of the bishops' stands on contraception, remarriage, (at least some reasons for) abortions, and same sex marriage.
  
  And the palatial estates of many of the bishops while pleading poverty during fund raising drives.
  
  The bishops have lost control of almost every Catholic subset other than themselves. And very few care.