{"id":1506,"date":"2005-10-06T11:25:53","date_gmt":"2005-10-06T11:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/10\/radio-daze-3.html"},"modified":"2005-10-06T11:25:53","modified_gmt":"2005-10-06T11:25:53","slug":"radio-daze-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/10\/radio-daze-3.html","title":{"rendered":"Radio Daze"},"content":{"rendered":"

…in a few minutes (1 Eastern, to be precise,) I’m going to be a guest on this show out of a public radio station in San Francisco. I think you can listen online.<\/a> <\/p>\n

I was initially told that the topic would be seminary visitation, but I see from the website it has now been transformed into, of course, the question of homosexuals in the priesthood. Sigh. Anyway, I was kind of nervous  – and I’m never <\/em>nervous about media, especially radio – about the set-up, but I just got a call saying that one of the other guests has been replaced by Fr. Michael Sweeney, co-founder, with Sherry Weddell, of the Siena Institute. <\/a>That’s better.<\/p>\n

Okay, done. Boy was that awful – from my perspective. I can deal with not having time to make my point, but it’s really hard when the babysitter let the baby take a morning nap and he’s so not sleepy, so I’m walking around the house behind him, phone in hand, trying to listen and compose some thoughts. <\/p>\n

Anyhoo. Look for that Purge, coming anytime to a diocese near you. As if. God bless Fr. Sweeney. He did a nice job. I think I was mostly just frantic and overheated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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