“No USCCB document is relevant in this diocese. The USCCB doesn’t speak for me. The only relevant document … is my letter. There is one teacher in this diocese, and these points are not debatable.” — Scranton Bishop Joseph F. Martino, crashing a parish forum on Faithful Citizenship to denounce the document and, in the process, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops.

The letter on Faithful Citizenship was approved by 98% of the American bishops at their meeting last year — a meeting Bishop Martino did not attend.