Inside the Boston Archdiocese: Caritas Christi

Readers, we just caught a new post by the folks over at Boston Catholic Insider regarding the Caritas Christi transaction that looks like it’s a worthwhile read.  It’s their Top 10 questions about the Caritas/Cerberus deal.  All merit a read, but if Question 7 in particular is true, it’s baffling to us why that would [...]

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Inside the Boston Archdiocese

We are delighted to have heard from Vicar General Fr. Richard Erikson on Thursday evening in the comments on our last post about Fr. Bryan Hehir (“Fr. Bryan Hehir “Wounds Catholic Unity” by Undermining U.S. Bishops on Healthcare”) and are preparing a response to him in the next few days.  In the meantime, reader Mary Reilly, [...]

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Fr. Bryan Hehir “Wounds Catholic Unity” by Undermining U.S. Bishops on Healthcare

As you all probably know by now, at a June 15 meeting of the U.S. bishops, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops  President Cardinal Francis George condemned Catholic Health Association President Sr. Carol Keehan for her role in helping pass President Obama’s abortion-funding national healthcare legislation. The USCCB called the CHA’s actions a “wound to Catholic [...]

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No Backbone for Boston Archbishop

A quick read of this weekend’s edition of The Pilot and a look at recent news from the Boston Archdiocese confirms the sad state of affairs for Boston Catholics.  The Cardinal Archbishop of Boston seems to have even less backbone than the traces of it we glimpsed earlier in his Boston tenure.  He is continuing to make [...]

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New Catholic University President: What No One is Reporting About John Garvey’s Appointment

Many of you have probably seen the news that Catholic University of America has appointed Boston College Law School Dean, John Garvey, to be the new president.  Fortunately, sources like Catholic Culture and Pewsitter came out quickly letting everyone know about Dean Garvey’s troubling record on failing to defend Catholic teachings. But every report we [...]

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How NOT to talk to a fan of Bryan Hehir

We get lots of emails and we debated whether to share this one. This email exchange between a Boston priest and a lay person originated with a recently published Letter to the Editor in The Pilot by the priest in favor of admitting children of gay couples to Catholic schools, but then pulled in Fr. Bryan Hehir, [...]

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Are Boston Catholic Schools Violating Vatican Directives and Canon Law?

The latest revelations in recent days from the Archdiocese of Boston and their Catholic schools suggest they are actively ignoring Vatican teachings and directives, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Canon law, and even the USCCB. Read on for these 3 examples, as we will let you be the judge. Example 1: Pilot columnist Michael Pakaluk described in [...]

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On the Issue of False Compassion to Homosexuals

Response to the “Big Picture on Catholic Education” has been extremely positive!  We understand the essay is making the rounds across the Boston archdiocesan hierarchy and presbyterate, as well as other dioceses and conservatives across the country.  One of the topics covered in the “Big Picture”–false compassion–merits further discussion because unfortunately, you’re going to hear [...]

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The Big Picture on Catholic Education for Children of Gay Parents

Faithful readers, this is now the final version of the “Big Picture” essay.  In view of the conflicting messages and lack of recent communications from officials in the Boston Archdiocese over the matter of letting gay couples’ children attend Catholic schools, this essay outlines all of the issues to be considered in the big picture of [...]

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