text: I imagine the response from most people, including most Catholics, if the USCCB were to actually grow a set and make a unified statement in support of immigrants would be kind of like the reaction people have at "old timers" baseball games. They think it's charming that the old dudes still go up and take their swings, but it's also a little painful watching once great players so far past their prime.
  
  There was a time when the USCCB was a force to be reckoned with in the political arena, an honest broker that could be relied upon to stand up for a consistent, non-partisan moral code. But that all ended when they got in bed with the GOP after Roe v. Wade.