Catholics want the truth

We detour from the immediate topic of Fr. Bryan Hehir today to highlight this excellent post by Paul Melanson at LaSalette Journey entitled ”Catholics want the truth, not sentimental paternalism” because of that post’s connection to this blog’s interactions with Vicar General Fr. Richard Erikson over our coverage of Fr. Hehir.  It gets even more interesting and timately [...]

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Take Action to Protect Your Constitutional rights

Readers, we interrupt the lively discussion about Fr. Bryan Hehir’s comments on Catholic Conscience Exemptions, to ask you to do something even more important today than addressing the situation with Fr. Hehir. No joking–we are serious on this one. Catholic Citizenship, the local organization that complements the Massachusetts Catholic Bishops efforts to ensure Catholic voices [...]

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Fr. Hehir on Catholic Conscience Exemptions

Joe is off on a much deserved break, so I’m helping out along with our web/video crew to continue documenting things Fr. Bryan Hehir has said that we here at the blog see as objectively problematic.  No one in an official capacity from the archdiocese has responded to us about the last post and video [...]

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On the Topic of Women Priests and Fr. Bryan Hehir

Most of our blog readers by now should be familiar with the interchange between our bloggers and Vicar General, Fr. Richard Erikson.  You’ll find a record-setting 70 comments on our last post, Response from Boston Archdiocese’s Vicar General. where we shared how the Archdiocese feels much about our posts has been “untrue,” “inappropriate,” and “harmful to the [...]

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Response from Boston Archdiocese’s Vicar General Fr. Erikson

Those following the blog know that we have had the pleasure of comments by Boston Archdiocese Vicar General, Fr. Richard Erikson and a request for dialogue.  A post by Paul Melanson at La Salette Journey entitled, “Constructive Criticism or Condemnation” prompted us to now tell you exactly what has resulted from our interaction with him.  [...]

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Bryan Hehir, Wounded Catholic Unity, and Abortion Funding

About 3 weeks ago, we wrote criticizing how Fr. Bryan Hehir helped reinforce a “wound to Catholic unity” by praising the Catholic Health Association’s leadership as they celebrated the passage of CHA-backed “Obamacare.”  Now we see the first federal funding of abortion, and the concerns of the Catholic bishops and millions of other Catholics and [...]

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“What I Believe” is Unbelievably Bad

To call the Boston Sunday Globe Magazine’s piece, “What I Believe”  anything more than a poorly-written wretched Anti-Catholic screed would be a compliment.  It is so bad it is literally unbelievable, and as usual, the response by the Archdiocese–that these days, is mostly run by Chancellor Jim McDonough, Fr. Bryan Hehir, and Jack Connors–has been [...]

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Negligence by Fr. Hehir’s Mass Catholic Conference Allows Funding for Gay School Programs

While the recently signed 2011 Massachusetts state budget has slashed funding to programs affecting hundreds of thousands of poor people, the Legislature allowed funding gay programs in public schools with $100,000 from federal medicare money and up to millions in state tax money–and the Mass Catholic Conference under Fr. Bryan Hehir’s direction did nothing publicly to stop [...]

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Fr. Hehir and Ted Kennedy: False Teaching ‘Emboldens’ Greater Evil

Today we focus on yet another one of Fr. Bryan Hehir’s public statements that directly contradicted Church teachings and confuses the faithful, and we offer our attempt at fraternal correction. LifeSiteNews just highlighted June comments by Bishop Thomas Olmsted of Phoenix, who said that those who refuse to take Catholic pro-abort politicians to task for [...]

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Independence Day Message

If you have not yet read our latest post, “Greatest danger to Church is internal pollution” and how that relates to Fr. Bryan Hehir’s actions, please check it out.  Paul Melanson at La Salette Journey also has an excellent commentary from July 2 on the excuse of “ignorance” documented in our post  for Fr. Hehir’s honoring [...]

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