Sadly, the far-right Wojtylian wing of @USCCB, dominated by @napainstitute money and influence, is way too deep into their own asses to hear what Ladaria is telling them... https://www.catholicnews.com/cardinal-ladaria-cautions-us-bishops-on-politicians-and-communion/

When John Paul II was faced with the 1980 Italian pentaplebiscito, the one that made abortion legal there, he faced the facts and avoided any sterile confrontation with the Italian political elites...

When Spain made abortion legal, John Paul II never issued excommunications against king Juan Carlos II or any of his prime ministers, and the bishops @Confepiscopal knew way too well Spanish 19th and 20th c. to go over the same stupidity of issuing excommunications...

But US Catholicism is way too enamored with its own version of US exceptionalism. They think that they are where the buck stops, and the want to crush @joebiden to remain in the good graces of the @GOP.

. @ArchbishopGomez should go over his native country (Mexico) history in the 19th and 20th and review what happened when the religious elites decided to issue excommunications as a way to dealing with policy outcomes...

Instead of achieving any thing positive, it only fueled the never ending cycle of verbose confrontation that is the Mexican history of the 19th and 20th c. Perhaps all the @opusdeius bullshit history Gómez learnt in the US made him forget what happened this side of the river...

I really hope @archbishopgomez hears what Ladaria is telling him, but him, as his Jedi Chaput, are way too deep in cahoots with @napainstitute, so my guess is that between hearing what Rome is saying and what his masters at Napa request...

..he is going 2 do whatever @napainstitute wants, & they want confrontation; they want 18 th c. Jansenist vs Jesuit confrontation 2 prove US Catholicism is exceptionally pure, & far removed from Rome's influence...

...especially far removed from that "dirty" Jesuit known as @pontifex Francis's influence.