Individual bishops vs. the USCCB?

Steve Skojec has a thought-provoking post over at IC which I'm still thinking through:

Those words are long overdue from those of our bishops who recognize that their God-given teaching authority has long been usurped by a collective body with no authority of its own.

They are the words of Bishop Martino of Scranton Pennsylvania, who took matters into his own hands when he visited a parish forum on the upcoming elections, where documents like "Faithful Citizenship" were used by some to justify voting for Barack Obama [I covered that story here - AmP].

[Read more of Steve's post.]