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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

Make checks payable to M-A-R-K S-H-E-A Read more

Speaking of Presumption of Guilt Could we all hold off on damning JPII for obstructing justice by transferring Law to Rome until he actually commits the crime? You never know, it might just be that he’s a holy man and won’t do that. Let’s have some trust, folks. Read more

Vatican Top Forteeeeee! Comin’ atcha with 5000 watts of solid sound, I’m Monsignor Luigi Casem, playin’ stacks of wax for all you jills and jacks! Now let’s hear from a little gal with a big voice whose band, Biting Child, has dominated the charts for the past three weeks: Amy Welborn. Read more