Last week, a letter signed by 19 Catholic priests in Quebec, Canada, was published in the daily newspaper La Presse, denouncing the Vatican’s position on homosexual issues, including the ordination of gay men and the Catholic Church’s opposition to same-sex marriage. Scholars of the Catholicism say that the letter is the broadest Catholic protest in Canada’s overwhelmingly-Catholic province since 1968, when the Vatican issued the encyclical Humanae Vitae, which holds that contraception is immoral. John Allen of the National Catholic Reporter, however, dismissed the scandal as one that the Vatican wouldn’t address directly, while conservative LifeSiteNews tried their hand at muckraking, recalling that one of the letter’s signatories has stood against the Vatican before, declaring himself pro-choice and daring any bishop to refuse him Communion on those grounds.