"Cardinal's criticism is met with silence by Democrats"

In 1935, Governor James Michael Curley was pushing hard for a bill to create a state lottery. The bill looked like it would sail through the Legislature. But on the eve of the vote, the afternoon papers carried stories of Cardinal William Henry O'Connell denouncing it.

"The next morning, it went down to crashing defeat," said James O'Toole, a history professor at Boston College.

It is the "mirror image," he observed, of the dynamic now. Last week, after Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley said the support of church members for Democrats "borders on scandal" because of the party's support for keeping abortion legal, most of the state's leading Catholic Democrats responded with silence. - Boston Globe

I think the democrats are hoping it all goes away. After all, they've succesfully marginalized the voice of the Catholic Bishops on moral issues for some time now and don't want to see it return.

Come on, boys, keep pushing!