"In any event, I find it amusing that the Times always seems to send reporters with names like Laurie Goodstein to cover stories about the Catholic Church."
I was thinking the exact same thing.
I do not give to the Cardinal's Appeal because I am still pretty angry with how the pedophile scandal was handled (or mishandled) in the beginning. In my own community, we are active participants in the parish. In a fairly small town, we had about 120 2nd graders receive their First Communion a couple weeks ago, it was a pretty special sight to see (my son was one of them).
Congradulations and "welcome."