This is the 2nd column by the same author running the thrads now. He seems not to like Gov. Palin.
When one thinks of it, if her parents left the Catholic Church when she was 12, that would be 32 years ago, coinciding with the effects of the Vatican Council 2 which was something of an abomination to traditional Catholics.
The effects of Vatican II, which ended in 1965, didn't take until 1976 to manifest themselves.