The case of the interdicts against Sr. Louis Lears, who attended an illicit ordination of women as priests, continues to heat up with a debate over NCR’s coverage of the story. Chief among the archdiocese’s critcisms is that they did not authorize someone to videotape the ordination. Tim Burke at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has the archdiocese’s blast at NCR–they raise some good questions as and some smokescreens–as well as the return coverage from NCR’s Tom Fox, who has some answers and more questions.

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