Douglas Kmiec, the Catholic legal scholar (and former staffer for two Republican presidents), who very publicly backed Obama in the prez race, has an essay in Commonweal answering his critics in the blogosphere.

Moneyquote: “While I may have felt personally wounded in the free-for-all that followed my endorsement of Obama, I never thought it was mainly about me. The scurrilous remarks of conservative bloggers missed the point, which was that I and millions of others who voted for Obama did so not despite our Catholic faith but because of it. When, in a meeting of faith leaders in Chicago, Obama told me that his community work years before, helping the displaced and the unemployed, left him empty until he knelt before the Cross, I believed him.”