Who else besides NCReporter or Commonweal would have printed this story without comment? Honest to God, the day I saw this issue of Commonweal with Ms. Welborn's article on the newsstands (last year), the previous issue was still in the stand with it and that previous issue has a cover story on Confession - opining that it should be "general" and that the "old way" is outdated and should go the way of other "traditions" in the Church.
Commonweal is the magazine that you find in parish rectories most often.
This article and the one about the anonymous homo priest are my first exposures to Commonweal. I don't think I will be subscribing.