[NYer]

How does a 2 member organization make a ‘press release’? It’s not even an official organization! Were you or I to do that, the press would not take us seriously. The media is equally culpable in keeping the pot stirred.

[Mrs. Don-o]

It's not just 2 people. From Wikipedia: "The organization was started in 1979 in San Francisco, California, and has more than six hundred nuns worldwide with new members joining regularly and new houses being established."

Interdict is more than called for.

[LordBridey]

How does a 2 member organization make a ‘press release’?

NYer, this is not a two member organization. There are chapters of the SPI around the world. They are extremely popular within the gay community, not only for their fund-raising activities to support gay charities, but also for blatant and aggressive anti-Catholicism, particularly the Catholicism that sanctions the lifestyle that they wish to indulge in.

[kawaii]

there is a problem here in that this bishop gave communion to folks he knew he shouldn’t have... there was a day that in itself would qualify as defacto self ex-communication... it’s a day that needs to be returned to...

[Mrs. Don-o]

SF Chronicle also did a puff piece on the "sisters" yesterday. Their "charitable" work largely consists of running flamboyant blasphemous entertainments as fundraisers to meet the costs of condom give-aways and "outreach to gay youth."

SF people don't understand that a holiday festival for "gay youths" age 14-24 means a sponsored venue for twentysomething gay men to pick up sexually-confused adolescents? Or I suppose they do understand...

This is the kind of thing that put even merciful Jesus in mind of millstones and deep water...

[DogwoodSouth]

I'll add my voice to the others in stressing that SPI is not a small (or local) organization. They're international. I encourage all to take a look at their website (http://www.thesisters.org/) and to decide for themselves if this is any sort of "overreaction." In truth, this is a serious and long-term effort by some to undermine the immutable teachings of the Christian faith regarding human sexuality. Since the group's inception, the Catholic Church has been the main target of their lampooning and perverted distortions in costume, action and ideology. One of their members is named "Pope Dementia the Last", for crying out loud! He was a main character in the group's public "Exorcism of Pope John Paul II" in 1999. Their website's "sistory" (get it?) brags that, in 1996 "Sisters attended, for the first time, the annual Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert and served Oh! Communion with medicinal brownies and tequila to parched and needy pagans. They also performed and passed out safer sex materials and set up a prayer shrine." The group also hosts an annual "Hunky Jesus Contest." The list could go on and on and on... And Catholics aren't supposed to be offended? Here is the bio of "Sister Delta Goodhand," one of the men who received Communion on the 7th from the archbishop. You can read for yourself his views, etc. http://www.thesisters.org/bios/delta.html