[SelmerTS111281]

Your Priest is fortunate to have followers as passionate as you. I'm afraid I still don't see what the diocese has to gain by involving our friends in the media. I admit, I am on the outside and therefore may require more concrete evidence than you are providing.

Peace, TS

[Slyfox]

I'm afraid I still don't see what the diocese has to gain by involving our friends in the media.

That is what has us all baffled. On a related note, I was involved in a dioceasan sex ed fight in 1984. We NEVER went to the media with it. We dealt directly with the bishop. It was at one point leaked to the media through, again, a feminist when she realized she was losing her fight to sexualize the kids in all of our school and CCD programs. We miraculously won that fight and we felt it was wrong to bring scandal to the church. However, in this case, what else can we do when we are dragged into a media circus at Sunday Mass?

I suspect the feminist in charge of this one counted on the fact that we are such a reserved parish that we would be silenced by the media involvement. What she didn't count on was the fact that a number of us have been bruised in other fights in other churches. St. Thomas has been a refuge for us. Well, she pulled the media in, now she will have to deal with embarassing the bishop.