Remember my posting of this morning? In which I asked readers to let me know if any bishops had joined Archbishop Chaput of Colorado in speaking out about the Pryor nomination?

Have I been inundated? Is my inbox full to overflowing? No. A reader has written to say that Archbishop Oscar Lipscomb of Mobile, Alabama has reprinted Archbishop Chaput’s column in the Mobile diocesan newspaper…and that’s all.

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary committee all but announce that fidelity to Catholic teaching represents a disqualification for the federal bench, one brave bishop, Archbishop Chaput, thunders a denunciation, and only one other bishop in the entire country has the courage to join him?

I too found AOL’s picture of the Pope offensive. But it’s one thing for a secular entity to reproduce an unflattering photo of the pontiff–and quite another for his own bishops to remain silent when the rights of the faithful are under assualt. Michael Novak, what are we to make of this?