{"id":1394,"date":"2010-02-27T05:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T05:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2010\/02\/dateline-beverly-blogger-issues-mea-culpa\/"},"modified":"2017-01-24T19:09:28","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T00:09:28","slug":"dateline-beverly-blogger-issues-mea-culpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2010\/02\/dateline-beverly-blogger-issues-mea-culpa.html","title":{"rendered":"Dateline Beverly: Blogger Issues Mea Culpa!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

<\/a>It\u2019s sometimes your most clever posts that get you in trouble. First there was Popeye<\/a>, which has had more comments than any post yet\u2014including several justified complaints. (OK, Popeye isn\u2019t really Catholic, and Bluto isn\u2019t Protestant.) But now I\u2018m in trouble with my priest, Father Barnes! Sheeeesh. I\u2019m not sure the offense is confessable. You be the judge.
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In my most recent post<\/a>, I asked a simple question: Let\u2019s say you could be a priest. What order would you enlist in? <\/i>I had some fun with the post: I mentioned a couple of orders I was once quite interested in (Franciscans, Carthusians) and gave what I thought were amusing, off-center reasons for joining them, or not. Then I said I saw myself as a Dominican because (pushing my tongue further into my cheek) I look good in white. I read the post to Katie at dinner. She smiled and, more tellingly, did not grimace. <\/p>\n

Then before our CL School of Community<\/a> last night, I told Father Barnes about the post and the poll alongside. He asked for the list of choices in the poll, and after I had reeled it off he asked, \u201cWhat, no dicocesan priest?\u201d<\/p>\n

My heart sank, but my mind, which can prove any point, right or wrong, had a quick answer: \u201cIt\u2019s not an order,<\/i> Father!\u201d<\/p>\n

He shrugged, smiled slyly, and said, \u201cI\u2019m just saying . . . \u201d<\/p>\n

And he\u2019s right, of course. I should have given the option to vote diocesan, but then, it\u2019s too late now. Which leaves me uttering a meek and mild mea culpa.<\/i> I tried to pick a sheepish-looking photo, but I\u2019m not sure I do sheepish well. <\/p>\n

I suggest that those who want to express their solidarity with Father Barnes and make a certain blogger look even more foolish than he already does could check off \u201cOther\u201d in the poll.<\/p>\n

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