It looks as though Sen. Barack Obama’s Catholic National Advisory Council is still missing in action. No word from his campaign has come forth providing evidence of its existence, and there is still no mention of the group on its website. Beliefnet spoke to one of the group’s members, an unemployed liberal, and she says she chats on the phone with other members. But that’s it.

This issue has a foul odor to it: If indeed the Advisory Council is extant, why doesn’t the Obama campaign flag it the way it used to do?