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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MA Bishops, Fr. Hehir’s Mass Catholic Conference silent on gay school program funding

Where are Cardinal Sean O’Malley, Fr. Bryan Hehir, Catholic Charities President Tiziana Dearing, Mass Catholic Conference Head Ed Saunders, and the leadership of the Knights of Columbus when you really need them? While the State of Massachusetts faces an unemployment rate of 9.3-9.5% and has cut hundreds of millions of dollars from the state budget [...]

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Bryan Hehir’s 2009 Social Justice Conference: Part 3

Folks, we’re now in the homestretch on Fr. Bryan Hehirs social justice convocations and speakers & sponsors he recruits who’ve shown anti-Catholic agendas. First-time readers may want to start with Fr. Hehirs 2006 Social Justice Conference (sponsored by the ACORN-funding Catholic Campaign for Human Development with a speaker who organized a churchs march in Boston’s Gay Pride [...]

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Wolves, and Bryan Hehir’s First Boston Social Justice Conference

In view of it being Holy Week, I debated whether to post.  But the betrayal of Jesus brought to mind the betrayal of Catholic moral values that seem to have been encouraged by many of the speakers and sponsors Fr. Bryan Hehir recruits for his recent Social Justice Conferences so I thought I should share [...]

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Wolves, Sheep, and Fr. Bryan Hehir

The psalm from today’s Mass struck me this morning.  “The Lord will guard us, as a shepherd guards his flock.” (Jeremiah 31:10, 11-12).  I love praying on that image of the shepherd guarding his flock, but the current situation in the Archdiocese of Boston feels more like the wolves have come and the shepherd has run off.  [...]

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Open Letter to Cardinal Regarding Fr. Bryan Hehir

I am blogging for the first time and want to make this an open blog/letter to Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston regarding the situation with Fr. Bryan Hehir. After hearing the pitch for the 2010 Catholic Appeal last weekend, my wife said something about Fr. Hehir trying to influence the direction or organization of the [...]

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