text: Love your last line CAEL.  What got that USCCB in trouble was it's statement on nuclear weaponry, coming as it did during the time of Reagan's military build up.  As to social issues, Bernardin's concepts didn't promote abortion as the only life issue Catholics care about, and I suppose that was seen as 'leftist', but in reality it supported the idea that it was pointless to talk about abortion when the use of nuclear weapons would abort the planet.  That made sense to this 80's conservative.  One thing St Ronnie did for me was to end my association with the GOP.  Oh for the good ole days when conservatism wasn't  synonymous with Ayn Rand sociopathology.