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The other day, I posted about this “pledge” video. Finally, someone has responded. Here’s an idea we can all get behind! A grateful h/t to good old Fr. Austin Murphy.

But he has a clear idea who is: Bishop Robert Hermann, administrator of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, says that the election of President Barack Obama would not have occurred without the support of lax Catholics. “If at this stage our anger is directed at President Obama, our anger is misdirected,” Bishop Hermann writes. “Obama…

“The Church was a billowing desert tent, once so tiny it held but a single man, wearing the simple clothing of the people of his time. It was now a vast tent, cobbled onto, ripped asunder, patched so many times in so many places, its poles bending in the wind, yet not breaking. A tent…

It’s an old problem, but it bears repeating: when it comes to public relations, the Catholic Church is a disaster. The debacle over SSPX and Bishop Williamson is only the latest case in point. (And it’s not just the Vatican. Local dioceses, understaffed and overwhelmed, are often ill-equipped to confront the realities of the 21st…
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