Stop snagging the seamless garment

That's the title of of Brian T. Olszewski't editorial (print only) in this week's issue of our Catholic Herald. He points out that the recent Wisconsin advisory referendum on restoring the death penalty passed 55 to 45% and assumes that Catholics voted in roughly those proportions.

What kind of catechisis will it take for the Gospel to penetrate hardened Catholic hearts? How many more papal pronouncements, bishops' letters, priests' and deacons' homilies, books, articles and studies are needed to embrace the church's opposition to capital punishment?

Why does he expect Catholics to take, say, bishops' letters to heart when he's running op-eds disagreeing with them?