I have no idea if Fr. Euteneuer talked to Sean first privately, but it sounds like he probably didn’t. That’s an approach I would have preferred. Instead of writing the Hannity-is-a-”rule-bound and juvenile”-Catholic column, he could have tried reaching out to Hannity, who’s always struck me as a reasonable and good guy. A TV and radio star who gave as much airtime to Terri Schiavo’s right to life as he did, for instance, deserved that. I’m all for priests correcting people — public Catholics — when they’re wrong. But I think there might have been a more fruitful, more persuasive approach that could have been taken in this situation.