Archbishop Timothy Dolan...

...of New York was elected president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Tuesday "in a surprise move that reaffirmed the conservative direction of the Roman Catholic Church in America." (My emphasis.)

Archbishop Dolan’s election consolidates the gradual shift in leadership and priorities for the bishops’ conference, which from the 1970s through the 1990s issued decrees on more traditionally liberal concerns like economic inequality, workers rights, the environment and peace. While the bishops still do take up issues like immigration and poverty, they are far more focused on shaping public policy to stop abortion and prevent the legalization of marriage between same-sex couples.

Same-sex marriage is a bigger problem than economic inequality, workers rights, the environment and peace? Really?