UPDATE: I think we could have predicted this back-peddling. As said below, the damage is done. Many Catholics in Spain are now scandalized and/or frustrated.
It looks like the USCCB is not the bishop's conference with unorthodox spokesman and staff. See this outrage reported this morning on Fox: here .
Contrast this with the pastoral letter that the bishop of Scranton wrote to his diocese on the occasion of the feast of the Immaculate Conception. In this letter (published in the January Catholic World Report) Bishop Martino speaks the unvarnished but joyful truth about chastity and makes parents accountable for the education, guidance, and protection of their children. He even criticizes the presence of sex education in some Catholic schools.
Then we have the case of last year where the bishop (now retired) of Worcester testifies (on behalf of the entire Massachusetts bishops' conference) to the Massachusetts legislature that some form of law recognizing and allowing homosexual union benefits (as long as it is not called marriage) is acceptable to the Church - letting all the Catholic members of the MA legislature off the hook. Of course the Bishops in Massachusetts back-peddled from these statements - but as in the case reported above - the damage is done. More Catholic faithful are confused, frustrated, angry, and tempted to join schismatic groups.
May God have mercy on us - and send us more holy bishops!
From the small holding in Bethune...
Oremus pro invicem!
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