With the controversy still alive and kicking over the Pope’s recent comments about condom usage and contraception, we’re dipping a small toe in the water—not about the condom controversy–but just to share what we know of Fr. Hehir’s views on contraception. That’s it—nothing about the Pope’s condoms comments (except a suggestion people might want to [...]
Archive for November, 2010
Fr. Bryan Hehir, Archbishop Weakland, and Contraception
Posted in Archdiocese of Boston, Bryan Hehir, tagged Bryan Hehir, cardinal sean o'malley on November 28, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Bryan Hehir’s “Seamless Garment” Unravels
Posted in Bryan Hehir, U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), tagged Archdiocese of Boston, Bryan Hehir, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on November 17, 2010 | 31 Comments »
Yesterday’s defeat of Bishop Gerald Kicanas is a huge win for those of us who feel the time has come to finish unraveling the late Cardinal Bernadin’s and Fr. Bryan Hehir’s “seamless garment” principles. This piece from George Neumayr at Catholic World Report said it well: In the years following Roe v. Wade, the US [...]
URGENT: Tell Bishops to Vote Against Enabler of Child Abusing Priest
Posted in U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), tagged diocese of tuscon, kicanas, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on November 12, 2010 | 5 Comments »
The Boston Catholic Insider blog has launched a “Red Alert” campaign asking the U.S. bishops who meet in Baltimore this weekend to NOT elect the lead candidate for the new national leader (current USCCB Vice President Bishop Gerald Kicanas, since he is known to have enabled a priest convicted of child sexual abuse who is now defrocked [...]
Massachusetts Elections and Mass Catholic Conference
Posted in Mass Catholic Conference, tagged Archdiocese of Boston, Bryan Hehir, cardinal sean o'malley, Massachusetts Catholic Conference on November 6, 2010 | 10 Comments »
A week ago we posted about the murky message from the Massachusetts Catholic bishops on the mid-term elections. The murky message never clearly stated Catholics should vote against pro-abortion politicians, and what happened? A state that just 20 years ago counted 54% of the population as being Catholic and now is 38% Catholic voted largely [...]
November 2 Voting Thoughts
Posted in Uncategorized on November 1, 2010 | 25 Comments »
This is our first year blogging, and though it would be a bit presumptuous of us to assume that people will listen to everything we say, there’s a lot of confusion about who to vote for and how to vote on the ballot questions, so we thought we would share how we are viewing a [...]