In February 2007 the archdiocese had formally authorised such Masses to continue indefinitely in Our Lady of the Assumption parish as part of the archdiocese's "pastoral outreach to homosexual people." The archdiocese itself, in negotiations with the homosexualist activist group SMPC, offered to move them from the Anglican Church of St Anne's to Assumption. The archdiocese's statement appointed the Vicar General, Mgr. Seamus O'Boyle and Dean, Canon Fr.

Those who subscribe to an apocalyptic vision basically long for the end of the world and all the violence and bloodshed that comes with it so that Jesus will come back. This could prove to be a dangerous tendency in someone with the power to make war.

According to Julia Duin, a religion reporter for the Washington Times, more and more evangelicals are in fact fleeing their churches. Indeed, Ms. Duin regards church-quitting, at least among evangelicals, as nothing less than an epidemic. The problem, in her view, is not in the souls of the church quitters but in the character of the churches they choose to leave.

We have no one but ourselves to blame.

We've gotten the government-and the society-we deserve. But what did we do to deserve this bloated, power-hungry, self-serving, war-mongering bureaucracy? How did our straight-laced Puritan nation of freedom-loving citizens give way to a self-absorbed, entertainment-obsessed society?