The Health Care Bill Fight Has Ruptured Relationship Between Bishops and the Social Justice Lobby

Good piece here.

A month later, the U.S. bishops and conference officials are still angry.
“In the past, we have worked with Network on immigration reform, and they attend some meetings of our coalition,” said Kevin Appleby, Director of Migration Policy and Public Affairs at the bishops conference. “But working in a coalition requires trust. Network can’t have it both ways: it can’t benefit from the bishops’ advocacy and then undercut them at a strategic moment.”

This rupture has been a long time coming partly because NETWORK has very little of diversity of views and thus has little outlet for self reflection or self criticism.