In this press release, Sue Cyr says 89 Roman Catholic bishops “are proclaiming that in this election, Catholic voters must make abortion their defining issue.”

Cyr then lists a few of the sharpest statements from Catholic prelates, including Egan, Chaput, Burke, Farrell, and Martino. Interestingly, Serratelli, of Paterson, N.J., who’s been reported to the IRS, was not quoted. I don’t know anything about Cyr, other than the name of her group: the Ad Hoc Committee in Support of Our Bishops

Rocco Palmo, writing in the Tablet, puts the number at 50 Catholic bishops, by the way. There are 197 active Catholic bishops in the U.S. he says.

In other news, CBN is reporting that McCain campaign officials are handing out voter guides from Catholic Answers, a conservative California group that lists five “non-negotiables” that “serious Catholics” must consider in the voting booth: abortion, euthanasia, embryonic stem cell research, human cloning, and homosexual marriage.