"Non-Catholic gays?" Well, maybe non-practicing gay Catholics. But once baptized or confirmed Catholic, I thought doctrine says you're then always Catholic. And since always gay since birth, non-practicing only really applied to many of us since be written off by Burke as "inherently evil."

Francis Slay on church closings from the P-D, obviously referencing his "meeting" with the AB.

"It could have been worse," said Slay. "The archbishop obviously listened..."

Seems Francis and the AB attended two different "meetings."

to whom are the above alternative take on the meeting attributed to? a disgruntled slay staffer? cynical city planner? archidiocesan pr flack? church custodian hanging around at teh chancellry door? comparing the public comments of the man Slay with such unattributed "comments" seems somewhat suspect. is it a question of too little too late, the wrong thing at the wrong time? It is probably true that the archbishop's mind was made up, but I guarantee you that their children to fill the seats at those catholic schools and that the archdiocese lacks the imagination to figure it out.

jeez, maybe Slay should have just stayed out of it, because, you know, "grumble, grumble" ...

will

===but those people in those neighborhoods were retirees without children or non-Catholic gays or singles

My problem with this is that on no background one can't evaluate the statements, but the above seems to me to be non-fact driven. Sure, it could be true, but what's the evidence? I don't know of any reliable data on gays and lesbians in Census data. If it's a plant by the Archdiocese, the entire statement takes on a political tone that is really quite disturbing and worse--made up.