By John M. Grondelski, The Catholic Thing - I want to shift the focus. What about an “amnesty” for the U.S. Catholic bishops?... Like zealous COVID politicians, the U.S. bishops have yet even to look at their own record during the “pandemic.” So far, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops hasn’t engaged in self-examination as to whether shutting down Mass and the sacraments from sea to shining sea, in some places for more than a year, was a bad idea. Maybe simply wrong. They seem to have given themselves a self-pardon.