Audinos (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Because of Mother Angelica's missionary work with EWTN, my family and I became Catholics, and well-catechized Catholics at that. She WILL be canonized some day.

ggfourlife (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

We love the PCPA nuns!

princesswinona (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

my school's choir is gonna sing this song for our choral concert at the end of the year!!!wipeee!!! nice song!;D

harryhobart (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Greetings from a fellow Catholic in the U. S. A.Harry

harryhobart (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

mbcastard: Thank you for your kind reply. My own comment was a response to an earlier one by HypocriticalBigot (several posts below this one; I don't know why it didn't post under his comment). We are called upon to defend the Faith, in a Christian and rational way. While we should not react angrily to attacks--that just encourages the bigots--we can't, I believe, ignore them either. By not offering an effective apologia, we invite contempt for and further attacks on the Faith.

mbcastard (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

hi Harry,what you say about the church is precise. Thanks for standing up for the faith.

harryhobart (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

The Poor Clares, and a myriad others like them, who, through their actions and (specially) their prayers are striving to re-center the Church on the great and ancient triad of Tradition, Scripture, and the Magisterium, are doing precisely what's needed to combat the moral degeneration of the clergy and the broader society.Let me close by saying that your moral indignation speaks well of you. You are much closer to God and his Church than you perhaps care to admit.God bless you.Harry

harryhobart (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

The priestly sexual crisis was not about pedophiia, but about ephebophilia (pederasty). The denial has been to pretend otherwise. While we're on the subject of denial, as a former high school teacher I can tell you that American society is truly in denial about the problem of ephebophilia in the public schools. But this does not fit the "narrative" of those who wish to discredit the Church, and runs afoul of "politically correct" thought on both homosexuality and public schooling. (Continued)

harryhobart (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

In my opinion, the bishops' great error, in the wake of Vatican II, was to heed fashionable secularist thought and ignore ancient wisdom and Scriptural guidance in screening candidates for the priesthood. Men of obvious homosexual orientation were admitted in large numbers to seminaries starting in the 1960s. Despite your somewhat crude allusion to priests "shag[ing] children," the great majority of priest-minor sexual contact involved the seduction of adolescent males. (Continued)

harryhobart (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

The sex abuse crisis in the American Catholic Church has been a source of great anguish and sorrow to the faithful. But we have hardly pretended it did not exist. Witness the Keating commission and its report. Priests are human, and so liable to succumb to temptation and fall into sin. That's not news, and it's not new; Jesus chose 12 Apostles Himself . . . and one of them was Judas! That does not absolve the American bishops of much responsibility for what occurred. (Continued)