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So I let my subscription to the Catholic Herald lapse some years ago, along with my Catholic Catholicism, my belief in the Virgin birth, my belief in transubstantiation, along with Catholicism.

I let my subscription to the Catholic Herald lapse.

It's a newspaper magazine out of the United Kingdom, and the ripples continue to spread from

Mark Oppenheimer's piece about me in the New York Times magazine about monogamy, where

he kind of used me as the entry

point and uh I appreciate that mark very much I'm happy to be mark Oppenheimer's entry point

whenever he needs one anyway uh the telegraph magazine in the UK rose story about Mark's story

and interviewed me and uh quoted me and the Catholic Herald apparently or a writer

at the Catholic Herald read the story. Francis Phillips read it and he's not too happy.

You see, the piece identifies me not only as a homosexual, which he has a problem with, but also

America's leading relationships columnist, which I kind of have a problem with.

I hope I'm not that.

But also, you know, they talk about the fact that I'm in a not monogamous relationship.

And Francis writes, what in heaven's name is he doing as a relationship advisor?

Blah, blah, blah.

And his second thought was you can't separate sex from fidelity,

because, you know, committed yet monogamish relationship is not something that he or the Pope have imagined in their philosophy.

Anyway, till he writes and he's, you know, he's a little upset.

And he nominates someone else who he thinks should be America's top relationships columnist instead of me.

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