[Vladiator]

It's amazing that William Donohue is accusing others of trying to cash in on a scandal.

He and his group the Catholic League are the money changers to end all money changers, and he makes his living off of publicizing, and then being outraged by, various perceived slights.

Defender of the faith, my patootie.

[meandog]

Opinion polls may show that most Catholics favor married priests and female priests, but what isn't reported is that these sentiments are preferences, not demands.

If this were to happen then all RCs would instantly become Episcopalians...which is not altogether bad!

[Hibernius Druid]

Representative of the fringe, they are now seizing the moment to install their agenda.

Much more than a "fringe." In his many recent TV appearances, Mr. Donohue has come across as a nice but naive guy who misreads the subtext of the current sex-abuse scandal.

Yes, it's about gay priests (not pedophile priests), but beyond that it's about American liberals who, under cover of Vatican Council II, have hijacked the American Catholic Church for thirty years or more.

Postmodernists to a person, they have deconstructed the Church's pastoral theology and desacralized its liturgy. Like all postmodernists, they crave power while despising authority -- that's why Pope John-Paul II can't go to his eternal reward soon enough for them. After him, their deluge.

[ikanakattara]

I would hardly expect William Donohue to point this out, but most Catholics do NOT believe the clearly stated teachings of their own church, especially in the areas of sexual morality (birth control, remarriage after divorce, etc.) Whose fault it is isn't my concern. For whatever reasons, they are perfectly content to remain contributing, Mass-going Catholics. I point this out not to criticize them, but to offer that if one fails to understand this point, one will not understand why the sex abuse scandals have been unfolding the way they have.