A Very Good and Thoughtful Letter A reader tells me she read “an article that I like very much written by a Palestinian Christian who is engaged in peace efforts with Israelis and his perspective on the politics of victimhood, which I have seen as operative both in the current scandal, in the mideast and in my own life which I am convinced is directly contrary to the commands of Christ and which does not lead to healing and restoration… Read more

If Mike Hardy Hates It, You Know It’s Good! 🙂 Just giving you a hard(y) time, Mike. But I did think the piece very insightful. Read more

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Culture War A little salvo–a cloud no bigger than a man’s hand–in the coming attack on the Seal of the Confessional. Read more

Greg Popcak is great. Read more

Update on Brian Halderman Seems our Man of Integrity suddenly got rid of the drag nuns and faux priests photos today. Trust me. They were there. Poor persecuted man. What is interesting about his action is that this sort of cowardice and deception is not called “cowardice and deception” by the gay community. It’s called “being driven back into the closet”. But of course, this is untrue. I don’t want Mr. Halderman’s photos off line. I want them where we… Read more

Memo to Amy re: Seattle Catholic.com I don’t know the facts about Abp. Brunett. But I do know a little about Seattle Catholic.com, the people who wrote you attacking Brunett. They appear to be an embittered nucleus of reactionary malcontents who made the mistake of passing along to me a completely false rumor about a priest I know extremely well (evidently they thought I live elsewhere and figured they could do so with impunity). When I challenged them on it,… Read more

By the way, it’s not just American bishops that Don’t Get It Many in the gay community don’t get it either. Take, for example, this stunningly clueless guy name Brian Halderman. He seems to think there’s something weird about lots and lots of people connecting the dots between his complete contempt for chastity and orthodoxy (a contempt he shares with Paul Shanley), abuse of boys, boys, boys, boys, boys, boys and boys, and the priest scandals. It’s all a witch… Read more

What are they afraid of? Read more

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