[Notwithstanding]

This "journalist" writes: "He broke his long silence in a pre-Easter letter to priests last month..." without doing any research at all. Her research amounted to repeating whatever the NY Times or the wires fabricated the last time any one wrote on this topic.

[St.Chuck]

The Church is unlike other institutions in that they don't accord the media the same kind of subservience that say, politicians do. Diane Sawyer is unlikely to get get an exclusive interview with Cardinal Law. Seems to me that what the pope and clergy think is embodied in the catechism and the magesterium. I think it grand that the church does not play the spin control game, the news cycle game; oh how frustrating to the media that the Vatican is not in a state of panic at the American church's "crisis", when much larger problems exist that demand its attention.