For everyone following the “Boston Catholic Tea Party” 
protest against the dissident Catholic speakers slotted for the Boston Archdiocese’s Social Justice Conference this Saturday, we are in the homestretch and need you all to help keep the pressure up today.
As of 8:30am Friday, we will have updated our letter to the Holy Father, Papal Nuncio, Cardinal O’Malley, and others, and are asking everyone who is FedUp with the Archdiocese of Boston to click the FedUp button now and send the new letter. (If you signed it once before, please go ahead and sign the new one again!).
Two priests speaking at Saturday’s conference, Fr. James Massaro, SJ and Fr. Bryan Hehir, have records that include supporting pro-abortion politicians, supporting those who advance the gay agenda, or spreading false teachings in ways that can lead people from salvation and harm unity in Christ.
Why is this important for those in other parts of the country as well as Boston? Because as Boston, MA goes, so goes the country.
It’s been happening since they first dumped the tea. Now in the 21st Century, it’s continuing but it’s a mirror image – as the angels of darkness pretend to be angels of light. Boston’s a hub for higher education, with the Marxist/socialist ideas long promoted at Harvard and elsewhere propagating across the country via Boston-educated leaders who have fanned out into government/politics, education, the Catholic Church, and business.
Massachusetts gave the country gay “marriage.” A federal judge in Massachusetts ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional. Boston’s Catholic Charities caved into the gay agenda, and now Boston Catholic schools have as well. As this blog has documented, Fr. Bryan Hehir is a linchpin in Saturday’s conference, and more importantly in propagation of a brand of “Kennedy Catholicism” and so-called “Catholic social justice” that’s often at odds with the teachings handed down by the Magisterium.
For the sake of the unborn that are killed every day and for the sake of the Body of Christ, we can’t let this continue!
To summarize the case against them and this conference, here are our Top 10 Reasons to Protest Boston’s Social Justice Conference.
- Fr. Massaro signed a widely-publicized statement supporting the pro-abortion Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as Health and Human Services Secretary in the Obama administration. (Sebelius had vetoed pro-life legislation multiple times, and Kansas City Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann asked her to not receive Communion until she repudiated her stance on abortion and make a “worthy sacramental confession.” She refused).
- Fr. Massaro is co-chair of the Cambridge Peace Commission that gave annual awards to two gay activists in recent years for their work spreading the GLBT agenda in elementary schools and society
- Fr. Hehir spoke at a pro-Communist think-tank in a series “Matthew, Marx, Luke, John” and also accepted an award named after a Chilean communist
- Fr. Hehir made “substantive contributions” to a socialist-themed program that corrupted Catholic social doctrine and led to the 1976 “Call to Action” conference
- Fr. Hehir was a key architect of the “seamless garment” concept that has downplayed the importance of abortion by the Catholic Church and has given air-cover to pro-abortion “Catholic” politicians such as the Kennedys for decades. He also was a reviewer of Mario Cuomo’s intellecually mischievous 1984 Notre Dame speech (“I’m personally opposed, but I can’t impose my views on a pluralistic society”), which the Hehir/Bernadin “seamless garment” concept helped validate politically
- Fr. Hehir honored the pro-abortion, pro-gay-marriage Mayor of Boston at a Catholic Charities fundraiser
- Fr. Hehir was President of Catholic Charities when they were brokering adoptions to gay couples, even though the Vatican said this was doing violence to the child by depriving them of an environment conducive to their full human development.
- Fr. Hehir publicly contradicted and criticized Cardinal Ratzinger’s 2004 statement regarding voting for pro-abortion politicians
- Fr. Hehir told a Boston College forum this spring he was concerned that Catholic conscience rights for healthcare workers opposed to abortion could harm the woman who “needs” abortion services.
- Fr. Hehir praised the “intelligent and courageous leadership” of the Catholic Health Association at their 2010 conference immediately after they helped pass the Obama-backed healthcare legislation that was actively opposed by the U.S.C.C.B. because it allowed funding for abortions. USCCB President, Cardinal George, called the CHA’s actions a “wound to Catholic unity.”
We are frankly FedUp with the Boston Archdiocese and so are thousands of other Catholics. Among the concerned Catholics who have written to the Archdiocese, here is one who pleaded,
for the sake of the unborn children who are murdered every day thanks (in part) to the support that abortionists receive from those who call themselves ‘Catholic, ‘please intervene and ask the Cardinal to withdraw the invitation to Fr. Massaro.”
He received no response.
The leadership of the Boston Archdiocese is continuing to thumb their noses at faithful Catholics like you and me. They seem to be very comfortable protecting and promoting speakers with documented histories of breaking unity with Christ, undermining the faith and leading souls away from salvation with false teachings–rather than halting the dissent and instead making sure those they put on a podium have a history of spreading the saving gospel of Jesus Christ and the true teachings of the Church via all of their words and deeds.
This affects everyone in the country. Are you FedUp?
Sign the letter today by hitting the FedUp button to send an email or fax message to the Holy See and Cardinal O’Malley about this ongoing travesty.
After you send the fax, drop a dime to the Papal Nuncio in Washington, DC, His Excellency Pietro Sambi at (202)333-7121. Tell the woman who answers that you sent a fax and email asking for him to intervene and remove these two speakers from the Boston conference agenda (along with whomever approved those speakers), and also ask her if she can report to you on how specifically His Excellency is handling this situation.
If you have time to drop a second dime, call Cardinal O’Malley’s office at 617-782-2544 and tell them the same thing.
And please, spread word to at least 5 other friends and family members today, and ask them to do the same.
The visibility you are helping generate in the Holy See to the Boston problems–which also affect the rest of the country–is unprecedented and will only help build a stronger Catholic Church ahead!
The God-given freedom to be born trumps all other freedoms.
Denied a birth all other American freedoms are meaningless.
“State” corrupted America in 1973 with the Roe vs. Wade decision.
“Church” corrupted, allowed Roe vs. Wade to become “settled law.”
Citizens sacrificed the freedoms of their unborn for personal convenience.
Citizens became oblivious of the equally mortal threat to their own freedom.
“State” finally achieved its hope for permanent change of America in 2008.
“State” would control the rest of human life that Roe vs. Wade did not.
Citizens finally saw the threat “choice” had brought to their own freedom.
Awakened perhaps too late to make any difference.
Too late for millions fatally sacrificed to “choice.”
Too late perhaps: for us as well.
Freedom died in 1973 but no one saw or cared.
In God we did not trust, but an evil “state” and “church.”
As our unborn continue to perish, America will perish.
“As our unborn continue to perish, America will perish.”
Well said.
Fr. Hehir, just what exactly can compensate for one child murdered?
To answer this question
Hehir basically told me on Saturday
“A fair and just minimum wage.”
Enough is enough;
St. Joseph ‘terror of Demons’ protect and guide us.
Yes, isn’t that EXACTLY what Satan says in the Bible: “Give everyone a fair and just minimum wage!”
I’m praying to St. Joseph, too, to protect the Church from the likes of you.
Survey: Catholics in US overwhelmingly support homosexual unions. (see http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=7858 )
Might this be a consequence of queer priests holding queer conferences with a Cardinal’s approval? They’re everywhere, and they’re after your kids.
Dear reader, will you fight this? Or have you, too, been Hehirized?
I think you mean people who ‘call themselves’ catholic support…unions.
Bigot.
Father Bryan Hehir has publically called for a “new global order.” I have something on this at La Salette Journey. Now, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), an organization which has been investigated by the Vatican and which lists among its priorities “incorporating the principles of the Earth Charter,” has received praise from Cardinal Sean O’Malley:
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/oct/09100604.html
Reflect on that for a moment. Proponents of the Earth Charter have a death wish for Christianity. Many of these wish to replace the Ten Commandments. And the Cardinal Archbishop of Boston has praised an organization which seeks to incorporate the principles of the Earth Charter.
There is a quiet revolution taking place in Boston and throughout other areas of the Church. This revolution is an attempt to undermine the traditional teachings of the Church and to construct that “new church” which Venerable Anne Catherine Emmerich foresaw. A false church and a false catholicism. One which is better suited for a “new global order.”
Note this paragraph especially in the Lifesite article:
Levada cited plenary meetings of LCWR at which speakers regularly oppose Catholic teaching, especially on sexuality. At the group’s 2007 meeting a keynote speaker described the more liberal or “sojourning” religious communities who are leaving behind “institutional religion” and “moving beyond the Church, even beyond Jesus.”
Moving beyond the Church, even beyond Jesus? Is this what Father Hehir means when he says that globalisation calls for “a leap forward in ideas and institutions”?
Salient observations, Paul. This “beyond Jesus” and “a leap forward” brought to mind the evolutionary thinking of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. According to Teilhard, Christ is the force behind a collective “Christ consciousness” of Man, which will culminate in the emergence of a “Cosmic Christ”. Such evolutionary thinking is in the forefront of the new theology today. It’s a form of religious immanence and pantheism, as Pope St. Pius X observed.
The pantheism of the women religious is more overt in their submission to the cult of Carl Jung. The problems at Sacred Heart in Kingston, as Carol McKinley has posted, got me looking into the Sisters of Divine Providence who run the place. One speaker at their spirituality center this year is Lora Dambrowski, OSF, who comes from the Jung Institute in Zurich, and is a past president of — you guessed it — the LCWR. (For more on Jung, see http://www.ewtn.com/library/NEWAGE/JUNGCUL2.TXT )
Pray that the Vatican shuts down the LCWR.
Jerry said: Catholics in US overwhelmingly support homosexual unions. Who is to blame for that? Any guesses?
Some time in the future, I would like to see a posting here on the subject of how much influence Bryan Hehir had over Cardinal O’Malley’s falling for the Massachusetts same-sex “marriage” hoax?
Robert Bork (you know US Supreme Court nominee) warned the Catholic Lawyer’s Guild in Boston at the Red Mass in 2004 that if we lose Massachusetts, we lose the country to same-sex “marriage.” When not one of the attorneys for the Catholic Lawyers Guild did anything substantive to prevent same-sex coupling solemnizations, and Cardinal O’Malley stood next to the faker in chief, Mitt Romney, both touting how they were “fighting” against these sanctioned couplings, where was Fr. Bryan Hehir? My guess is he was whispering in O’Malley’s ear that everything is going to be okay. This isn’t really that big a deal.
Why wasn’t anyone telling Cardinal OMalley about the Governor who was violating in several different ways, the Massachusetts Constitution? See http://robertpaine.blogspot.com/2006/06/governors-new-clothes-how-mitt-romney_17.html
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court betrayed the common good in a most grievous manner. An article written by Melanson which examines this in detail may be found here:
http://www.righthealth.com/topic/Goodridge_v._Department_of_Public_Health
This summarizes pur situation nicely too:
http://lasalettejourney.blogspot.com/2008/11/retreat-from-truth-preparation-for.html
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