The USCCB bureaucracy is in favor of a whole host of left-wing ideas, including the concept of nationalized health care. That is why so many conservative Catholics, like me, pay little or no heed to policy pronouncements from that body. (unless the USCCB has unanimous support from each and every American ordinary, its statements have utterly no force unless they have been approved by the Holy See).
If you haven't done so, you need to review Bishop Vasa's remarks about that very subject
here. …
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