Light On Dark Water

I can't imagine why The Atlantic thought it was a good idea not only to publish a piece written by an ex-Catholic-priest (and apparently more or less ex-Catholic) called "Abolish the Priesthood," but to put it on the cover. I suppose it might appeal to the average reader of The Atlantic as a step toward abolishing the Church altogether. But do the editors not realize how tired this alienated progressive Catholicism is, how often arguments of this sort have been made? I may be doing the author an injustice, but I barely skimmed the article, figuring I'd heard it all before.

However, it did produce this excellent response from Dawn Eden Goldstein, which was, surprisingly, published in America. I love that phrase "the poetry of not being sick."