Postscript.

"We are trying to balance our communications strategy so as not to bring additional attention to the allegations--while appropriately responding with comments that question [the report author's] motivations."

--Sister Carol Keehan, head of the Catholic Health Association, in an email to her members explaining her response to a report outlining how some Catholic hospitals price-gouged patients who had no health insurance. (1)

"Suppose somebody voted for the killing of ali the members of the House of Representatives, 'for all of you being killed. I call that pro-choice. Moreover, I am going to receive Holy Communion next Sunday.' Then you ask me, should he be given communion. My reply, 'Do you really need a cardinal from the Vatican to answer that question?'."

--Cardinal Francis Arinze, the Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship. (2)

"We are seeing so many Roman Catholics joining the (Episcopal) Church, Pope Ratzinger may be the best thing that ever happened to the Episcopal Church."

--Bishop Gene Robinson, the gay Episcopalian bishop, speaking at St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church in Trafalgar Square, London. (3)

"We'll own all commercial real estate. That means we will be able to control what goes on there. You won't be able to buy a Playboy or Hustler magazine in Ave Maria Town. We're going to control the cable television that comes in the area. There is not going to be any pornographic television in Ave Maria Town. If you go to the drug store and you want to buy the pill or the condoms or contraception, you won't be able to get that in Ave Maria Town."

--Tom Monaghan, founder of the Ave Maria Law School and of Domino's Pizza, describing his vision of the town he is founding near Naples, Florida. (4)

"A Catholic Jonestown."

--The response of one Ave Maria faculty member to Monaghan's vision. (5)

"In the light of such teaching, this dicastery, in accord with the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, believes it necessary to state clearly that the Church, while profoundly respecting the persons in question, cannot admit to the seminary or to holy orders those who practice homosexuality, present deep-seated homosexual tendencies, or support the so-called 'gay culture'."

--From the Vatican's "Instruction" on gay seminarians. (6)

"You don't write off a candidate for the priesthood simply because he is a gay man."

--Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin, Ireland. (7)

"Bring on the Inquisition.... What's wrong with a good inquisition now and then?"

--Brian Saint-Paul, outlining his editorial view on the seminary visitation in Crisis magazine. (8)

"This Report, however, is landmark in another aspect. It will change forever the special relationship that has existed for many decades between Church and State. This Report must be the starting point for the State's response to ali contained in it. This new beginning cannot happen unless the old relationship ends. The unrelenting deference, which constituted the relations between State and Church. It was given and expected. It was extremely influential in terms of outcome. It must end absolutely. Only then can the State act as it should as we go forward--objectively."

--Liz O'Donnell TD (member of the Irish parliament), speaking in parliament after the release of a report into the sexual abuse scandal in the Diocese of Ferns. (9)

"It's not a result of homosexuality, and nor is it a result of celibacy. We must address pedophilia for what it is. You cannot identify homosexuality with pedophilia. It's a very specific thing and it must be addressed on a case-by-case basis."

--Archbishop Diarmuid Martin again. (10)

(1) Consejo de Latinos Unidos, media release, "Internal Email Exposes 'Deliberate and Immoral' Campaign to Ignore Facts," November 17, 2005. (2) Andrew Rabel, "What Will Be the Consequences of the Synod?" Inside the Vatican, November 12, 2005. (3) Kevin Eckstrom, "Gay Episcopal Bishop Criticizes Pope; Some Catholics Outraged," Religion News Service, November 8, 2005. (4) Naomi Schaefer Riley, "Bringing a Law School Down," Wall Street Journal, November 11, 2005. (5) Ibid. (6) Congregation for Catholic Education, "Instruction Concerning the Criteria for the Discernment of Vocations with regard to Persons with Homosexual Tendencies in view of their Admission to the Seminary and to Holy Orders," November 4, 2005. (7) Michael Hirst, "Priesthood 'must be open to gays'," Tablet (UK), October 1, 2005. (8) Brian Saint-Paul, "Bring on the Inquisition" (editorial), Crisis, November 2005. (9) Liz O'Donnell TD, "Dail Statement on Ferns Report," November 9, 2005. (10) Michael Hirst, "Priesthood 'must be open to gays'," Tablet (UK), October 1, 2005.