USCCB: Show of support for embattled anti-poverty program
By JOHN L. ALLEN JR.
Baltimore
From the outside, much of the drama of a bishops? meeting pivots on what the conference will or won?t say about a given issue ? what sort of texts it adopts, statements it issues, and so on. For those with eyes to see, however, sometimes how the bishops vote with their feet is just as telling as anything they may eventually put on paper.