And on the same subject, there is a 'task force' to discuss this...

U.S. Bishops' Task Force to Discuss Pro-Abortion Politicians
In Wake of Cardinal Arinze's Comments

I will go to bed tonight feeling so much better just knowing that the bishops' "task force" has the situation in hand.

Bishop Wilton Gregory, president of the episcopal conference, announced the task force in the wake of a Vatican press conference last week in which Cardinal Francis Arinze said that politicians who support abortion must not go to Communion. He also said that priests must deny such politicians the sacrament.

....in the wake of Cardinal Arinze's comments? I thought this task force was started some time ago...?????

"To assist us in our common discernment, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has established a task force to discuss issues with regard to the participation of Catholics in political life, including reception of the sacraments, in the cases of those whose political advocacy is in direct contradiction to Church teaching," he said.

The establishment of this task force is a clear sign of the seriousness with which we take these issues and continue to consider how best to interpret and apply the norms of the Church in their regard," said the bishop of Belleville, Illinois.

What's to interpret? Ask Archbishop Burke how to do it - he has done the work for you - or Bishop Bruskewitz - he also knows how to deal with apostates and heretics. Cardinal Arinze has indictated that the time to act is now. Indecision and delay is not an option - we have waited 30 years for action!

I don't quite get it. The tedious work has been done from a canonical perspective. Oh wait...now I get it...It's going to be hard work - discussing scandal from a 'pastoral' position and actually making a decision on whether or how to make a decision.

Lord, I pray that You would grant these men fortitude to act as if they are Your shepherds and the successors of the Apostles who gave their lives for You. And I pray that You would give them the grace necessary to teach Your truth, whether convenient or inconvenient! And please grant me an increase of the virtue of patience, if it be Your will - especially when we must witness this scandal of inaction from an impotent USCCB!

Link here.