Be still our hearts, the latest issue of our favoritest newsletter ever is finally out: "San Francisco Faith: The Bay Area's Lay Catholic Newsletter." This issue's highlights include a balanced look at Baptism (an "experiment" that "might have some value"), a pr0n scandal at AT&T, and a poor defenseless lady who got in trouble at work, simply for refusing to do her job.
The trouble-at-work woman was Catholic, and her job was, in part, to provide sexual education to kids. According to a fund-raising advertisement in "Faith," when she declined to do so (we agree with her actions; sex should never be discussed until AFTER marriage), her coworkers bafflingly retaliated by calling her "Mother Mary Carcinoma Face, and other anti-Catholic" nicknames. We're not so sure that that zinger is "anti-Catholic" so much as just anti-that-one-particular-woman; we believe that it's possible to dislike the actions taken by an individual who just happens to be Catholic without actually being opposed to Catholicism. We mention the distinction -- the difference between "prejudice against Catholics in general" and "frowning at the actions of some people who happen to be Catholic" -- even though it has nothing whatsoever to do with this post.
After the jump: holy phone service, infallability, and carnal sins committed while flat on your back. (All of which happen to be categories we'd like to see on "Jeopardy.")
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