Newsflash: Scot Landry Doing Catholic Media, Out from Development

Folks, it’s official now.  The coup that we talked about back in April is a fait accompli.  Today’s Pilot reports that Scot Landry will now be Secretary for Catholic Media, leaving his position as Secretary for Institutional Development.  Though it’s good that they kept an orthodox Catholic guy in the Cabinet, the expression “spinning a [...]

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Working Version: Big Picture on Catholic Education

Over the past few days, we were working on an essay to give the big picture on the issue of allowing children of gay couples to attend Catholic schools.  We appreciate the feedback many of you have graciously offered along the way.  The essay is now complete and can be found here.  We hope you [...]

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Parental Partnership in the Mission of Catholic Schools, by Fr. Roger Landry

While folks at BHE work on plans to address the ongoing scandal and crisis in Boston, you will want to take a moment and read this excellent piece by Fr. Roger Landry, an outstanding priest of the Diocese of Fall River. He has shown a remarkable ability to say exactly what most of the officials in [...]

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More Contradictions on Boston Catholic Schools

The storyline on this whole Catholic schools fracas in the Archdiocese of Boston just keeps getting more full of contradictions when you look at what Cardinal Sean O’Malley published on Wednesday, what Fr. Bryan Hehir said on Thursday, what The Pilot published Friday, and what Fr. Rafferty just disclosed has happened to his parish.  Readers, [...]

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Boston Archdiocese’s Deception on Catholic Schools for Gay Couples’ Kids

The news today is that it seems we have a deception of monumental impact for the future of Catholic education in this country underway in the Archdiocese of Boston.  Fr. Bryan Hehir appeared on WBUR Thursday talking about the situation of the lesbian parents whose son was denied admission to a Catholic school, and he directly [...]

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Reaction to Cardinal O’Malley on Admitting Lesbians’ Kids to Catholic Schools

Catholics got a tiny bit of good news in Cardinal Sean O’Malley’s carefully-worded and pastorally-sensitive blog post about the Hingham school situation, but some very troubling implications remain in what he wrote, so there is much to still be concerned with. This post reflects initial reactions to the Cardinal’s statement, from a newcomer to the [...]

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Grant Official’s Threat Letter to Catholic Schools Revisited

If you have not yet read Dale O’Leary’s piece about Catholic schools or the piece by Denver’s Archbishop Chaput, please check those out.  Today, we continue the saga about the crisis and scandal by revisiting the letter that Michael Reardon, Executive Director of the Catholic Schools Foundation, sent to all schools in the Boston Archdiocese.  [...]

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Catholic Schools, by Dale O’Leary

Hot off the presses, this piece was recently written by Dale O’Leary, an internationally known lecturer and author of The Gender Agenda and  One Man, One Woman: A Catholic’s Guide to Defending Marriage.  Cardinal Sean O’Malley described Dale in an August 2008 blog post about a Courage event  as “always so good.”  This piece is [...]

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Catholic schools: Partners in faith with parents

Readers, given the interest and urgency level around the situation with the lesbian couple whose son was declined admission to a Catholic school, we thought you should all read this March 10, 2010 column by Denver Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.  It describes how he responded to a strikingly similar situation.  It’s too good [...]

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Boston Archdiocese Backs Lesbian Couple in Catholic School Scandal

In the latest news from the Boston Archdiocese, Cardinal Sean O’Malley , his senior cabinet officials, and big fundraisers all say it’s perfectly fine for the child of a homosexual couple to attend Catholic Schools.  This decision came the same day as Pope Benedict XVI blasted gay marriage as “insidious and dangerous.“ This comes just [...]

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