[Maximilian]

Thanks for posting this defense of Michael Rose. It's clear that Crisis magazine sold out. I hope they got at least 30 pieces of silver from the bishops. This says a lot more about the reliability of Crisis than it does about Michael Rose.

[patent]

This says a lot more about the reliability of Crisis than it does about Michael Rose.

Do you support threatening to sue a Bishop unless he silences a priest critic of Mr. Rose’s? Do you support this:

>[From Rose’s lawyer’s letter to Johansen] Furthermore, I am concurrently corresponding with the Most Reverend James A. Murray, Bishop of the Diocese of Kalamazoo, under the assumption that he has either tacitly or expressly permitted one of his own priests to initiate and publish the above mentioned website.... In the event that this is not the case, said correspondence will clearly indicate to the diocese that this office considers any and all future wrongful publications by you to be published with the expressed or implied authorization and ratification of the diocese of Kalamazoo.

patent  +AMDG

[ninenot]

I've read a number of pieces by Deal Hudson, and have NEVER been comfortable with any of them. Mostly OK--but there's a little red flag waving somewhere which is hard to pin down...

[ultima ratio]

Not only Crisis. EWTN sold out a while back--not on this issue, but in its reluctance to even honestly deal with the scandals until it actually became an embarrassment for them not to. Even then it was half-hearted and somewhat painful to watch. There is a horror I think of looking at the gay problem too closely. It is deep and it is wide. Nor has it only to do with the seminaries. It reaches to the Vatican.