UNITED STATES
Sacramento Bee

By Catholics for Choice

Published: Monday, Nov. 12, 2012

BALTIMORE, Nov. 12, 2012 — /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — As the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) gathers today, Catholics for Choice called on the bishops to engage in a serious examination of conscience as they reflect on their divisive political activities this year and the millions of dollars they spent trying to influence elections.

“The bishops had a miserable return on investment of Catholic people’s money and we demand an accounting of how they spent it campaigning on measures that Catholics clearly did not support,” said Jon O’Brien, president of Catholics for Choice. “As the bishops meet today, they are going to have to face the reality of these failures and acknowledge that they cannot pour in enough money, even spending outside of their dioceses, to buy measures at the state level that allow for discrimination…