BLOGWATCH POSTSCRIPT: Progressive Catholic has a bunch of good posts: It doesn’t start in the seminaries; teens need the sounds of silence; and memories of those “carry a baby doll around to learn why you shouldn’t get somebody pregnant” high school exercises. I disagree with him on priestly celibacy–I just don’t think the celibate priesthood is the reason Catholics have devalued marriage, and as for problems in the priesthood, there’s so much else to fix that I’m not sure why I should bother worrying about celibacy (which, as he points out eloquently, has served the Church very well in the past) when I could be worrying about, like, mortal sin. I’d also ask whether the complaints he raises could not all be brought by Catholics during the earlier periods he describes, when by his own account celibacy was one means of witness against the prevailing evils of the day. But his site is well worth a read.

And then there’s Christians for Cannabis. Legalization si, ridiculous theology no.