Around the blogs today

By Domenico Bettinelli, Jr. ( articles - email ) | Aug 04, 2003

Here's what's new and interesting on Catholic blogs today:

• John Mallon at Mallon's Media Watch blog is back up and running after some hassles with Blogger/Google. You should make him one of your daily blog stops.
• Mark Shea discusses blogger Andrew Sullivan's temper tantrums over the Church's assertion of the timeless teaching on homosexuality, and especially Sullivan's claim that the Church no longer has a right to speak on any moral issue.
• Peter Vere of Catholic Light (not "Lite") writes of the fallout of Canada's legalization of same-sex marriage and asks whether religious persecution is in the offing.
• Tom Fitzpatrick gives a line-by-line dissection to Sen. John Kerry's published outrage over the Vatican's document on gay marriage.
• Jeff Miller finds a curious commonality in headlines about the Vatican document.
• Leon Podles of Touchstone Magazine's blog notes that Canada's new definition of marriage says it is the union of two persons and asks why not more?
• Amy Welborn has a slightly different take on Andrew Sullivan's tantrum and stated turmoil over whether to remain a Catholic.
• David Ancell explains why we shouldn't celebrate the breakdown of the family.
• "Athanasius" notices that the Chicago Sun-Times has abandoned all objectivity when dealing with the Catholic Church.