I am blogging for the first time and want to make this an open blog/letter to Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston regarding the situation with Fr. Bryan Hehir.
After hearing the pitch for the 2010 Catholic Appeal last weekend, my wife said something about Fr. Hehir trying to influence the direction or organization of the Mens and Womens Conferences and also something about the structure or responsibilities of the cabinet. Posts to this blog and elsewhere confirmed what the wife heard so I feel people should say and do something. I would ask Cardinal Sean if I could speak with him the following question: After all of the scandal Fr. Hehir has helped bring upon the Church through his words and actions, is he still really in a position of responsibility and providing advice you listen to?
Cardinal Sean, I invite you to look at this article from Catholic Culture about Fr. Hehir from several years ago. Here are just a few highlights from the article and also what we have observed over time. I have decided I will blog more details about these that I have researched and learned more about:
- Fr. Hehir advocated that the Church be silent in the public square regarding contraception
- His writings on contraception have been used by Catholics for a Free Choice to oppose a conscience clause for employees of Catholic hospitals that would exempt them from having to provide contraceptive products and services
- His positions on communism, nuclear disarmament, and U.S. policy in Nicaragua have all proven to be wrong
- He hired the current head of the Mass Catholic Conference, despite the person’s history of personal donations to politicians who rabidly opposed the Church on key issues
- He honored the pro-abortion Mayor Tom Menino at a Catholic Charities fundraiser dinner. I think you, Cardinal Sean, pulled out from the scandal and controversy if my memory serves me correct
- His Social Justice conferences have featured speakers or representatives of organizations who publicly dissent from Church teachings, including a woman who led a Catholic church’s participation in Boston’s Gay Pride parade
- He defended gay adoptions by Catholic Charities as a part of a need to “balance various goods”. As we all know, the Vatican later ruled him wrong.
- As your liaison to Caritas Christi to maintain the hospitals Catholic identity, he neglected to head-off the Centene fiasco and scandal last year over referring patients for abortions before it exploded publicly. He also helped pick many of the Caritas Board members who contributed to the scandalous decision in the first place.
- He serves today as a Board member of several prominent University centers that sponsor speakers who publicly dissent from Church teaching. He has also accepted honors and awards from organizations that publicly dissent from Church teachings
- His speaking engagements include being keynote speaker with an advocate for gay priests, and featured talks with a lesbian feminist who advocates for women priests and at a gay-friendly church in a series with a gay activist who published a graphic guide to safe gay sex
The author of the Catholic Culture article wrote in conclusion, “the Church cannot regain her health until churchmen stop promoting those who are uncommitted to her teachings and values. When someone with questionable antecedents is finally identified as complicit in an intolerable evil, the chain of advancement needs to be traced back to those who had every reason to know better. Their records too must be regarded as blemished so that their future recommendations will be ignored. This is the first step to untangling the web of ecclesiastical promotion, which is also the key to straightening out nearly everything else.”
My wife and I have to ask the question: Cardinal Sean, are you accepting or are you ignoring Fr. Hehir’s recommendations today? If you are still accepting his advice and recommendations, I humble ask and pray that you reconsider.
I feel the future of the Catholic Church in Boston hinges on your answer to the question.
Francis,
Kudos on your charitable letter to Cardinal Sean.
It’s hard not to presume that the Cardinal is on board with Fr. Hehir’s poor judgment. Anytime the Cardinal writes about Hehir on his blog, it’s giddy.
Two things I wanted to pass along to you.
As a Notre Dame alumni, I was disappointed to hear of fellow alumn John Kaneb’s active involvement in bringing in Bryan Hehir as a “constructive permission” adviser for the Barack Obama scandal.
It’s also my understanding that Hehir was the author of the disastrous Mario Cuomo speech at ND that gave birth to the ideology that Catholic politicians can lobby for moral evils perpetrated upon their constituents so long as they privately oppose oppose it.
You may want to do some digging on these leads.
Check out…
http://www.realcatholictv.net/daily/vort.php
I’m glad this blog is here.
You are dealing with Bad Hair like he is a cub scout.
This guy walks with and advises the kings of the culture of Death.
“Fr. Hehir led a protest at St. John’s Seminary against Humanae Vitae”
Dude, THEY WON THAT ONE IN 1968.
4,000 aborted daily in America because of it…
Charitable letters?
If you’d like I could pat you on the head and thank you for coming, what a lovely man you are etc (Your letter will not be read)…Yes I will take your letter under advisement, boy you sure have swell hand writing (Are you happy you have a voice now? joke) …Oh, did I tell you you are a good guy? (it is all about that – no talk of salvationany stuff) And a strong Catholic too?(you actually have more than 2 children, boy you are a breeder!) We need people like you in the church. ( so please send along your tax deductible check)
Agitation and Propaganda is what is needed with the ghoul Hair.
I’d suggest reading Phil Lawler’s book , The Faithful Departed as a first step on really understanding the lay of the land in Boston.
Be mindful I do not want to discourage you but keep in mind – the church militant have been on the ground and in the trenches for decades in Boston, many are dead and gone.
Fr, Corapi quite publicly called Boston ;
“Ground ZERO in the Culture of death”
Who do you think is the Commander?
Sean, Cardinal O’Malley?
I’m telling ya, Bad Hair is like Rasputin.
He owns the place you’ll beg for a life time
to get access to.
I was heavily involved with the first Catholic Men’s conference
in Boston. The 2nd is when Corapi spoke his famous ground zero line. He wore battle fatigues, mention that his life had been threatened and mentioned quite specifically – that he is the only priest that has ecclesiastic authority directly from Rome to have access and authority to preach in any dioceses in the world. ( and he needed it to get to the podium in Boston)
The sodomite priest scandal is a tool that they
use quite effectively to advance against the real church.
They are currently attempting the same extortion they successfully pulled off here and in Europe and the Vatican it self.
“Fr. Hehir led a protest at St. John’s Seminary against Humanae Vitae” It is a conspiracy…
Joe and TheLastCatholicinBoston,
Thanks for your comments. I was at that Men’s Conference and heard Fr. Corapi first-hand, and I remember his “Ground Zero” comment. I have also read Phil Lawler’s book and do recognise who Fr. Hehir is and what we are dealing with. I am trying to put together an email list of people to copy on these messages, so pls let me know any names of influential people you think should be copied–or you can just point them here yourself.
Sorry if I dont write so well or sound like I just “fell off the turnip truck” re: the Church situation in Boston. Will try to do better in future posts, so stay tuned and give me another few posts…
Francis, with your turnip truck comment I’m thinking you’ve got a little seniority. So tell us candidly Mr. “Bad Hair exposed”
… What is it that you see that we are dealing with?
This is a true spiritual battle.
I would not waste another minute with Email lists. You need links from other web pages. You should find like minded news stories, other blogs or web pages and put in your Web address with your comments.
like this
http://bit.ly/Fr_Bryan_Hehire_is_a_snake
Try this link and consider it yours.
(I’m sorry if you know this already, I’m trying to be helpful)
FYI turnip boy,,,
Highlight the address, right click to copy, go to the address bar and hit paste.
I will pray for you tonight.
Joe,
I agree with almost everything you said, but I think that you may be mistaken about the origin and authorship of that disastrous Notre Dame speech by the former governor of NY.
Check out “Full of Grace: an oral biography of John Cardinal O’Connor” on Google Books.
http://books.google.com/books?id=90cgSXfYxV4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=full+of+grace&ei=g6-eS6i1CqH2yASS7tHPBA&cd=2#v=onepage&q=&f=false
Go to page 68 for an explanation and additional details of the key players.
If you are serious about this I’d suggest not using your name on this page.
Fr. Bad Hair is famous when confronted to deny his identity.
“No, no you must have me confused with somebody else, I’m not.. who ? Fr. Brad Bear did you say?”
Think Rasputin there Turnip Boy.
http://bit.ly/TURNIP_BOY
How did the Catholic Church in America role over on Abortion?
This is is the guy.
How in God’s name did Sodomite priest run rampant for 20+ years in Boston?
This is the guy.
The dear padre would step on your throat to get his oatmeal off a high shelf.
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