More scandal in the Boston Church
FROM THE PEW – The Catholic Action League (CAL) has uncovered another scandal in the Boston Archdiocese. Catholic Caritas Christi hospitals – which is under the supervision of he archdiocese, has entered into a joint venture with Centene Corporation to take over a state subsidized health program.
That program requires coverage for abortion, sterilization, and contraception.
But that’s not all. CAL is now reporting that five of the nine members of the “Catholic” board of directors of Caritas have been heavy donors to pro-abortion politicians in Massachusetts. The contributions were uncovered by going through FEC records for the board members.
Caritas Chairman James Karam contributed over $19,000 to the campaigns of Barrack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Deval Patrick (Mass. Gov.), Al Gore, and Barney Frank, among others.
Board members Joseph Feitelberg, Neil Finnegan, and John Garvey (who is, incidentally the Dean of the Jesuit Boston College’s school of law), and Ruben Kin-Shaw also made similar contributions.
“Cardinal O’Malley can stop this today with one word,” said Judie Brown, president of the American Life League. ”We beg Cardinal O’Malley and the Boston archdiocese to prevent yet another scandal by providing a clear defense of Catholic moral teaching, rather than a pact driven far more by financial interests than fidelity to the Catholic faith.”
We would hope that the good cardinal will follow Ms. Brown’s suggestion. How many more times do we have to watch as the bishops fiddle while the Church’s moral authority burns? Unfortunately, these outrages from the hierarchy are becoming all too common. Can we not demand that our bishops are faithful to the Church’s magisterium as they call us to be?
Register you concern:
His Eminence Sean Cardinal O’Malley, Archbishop of Boston, The Pastoral Center, 66 Brooks Drive, Braintree, MA 02184. There is an e-mail form at the archdiocese’s website: http://www.bostoncatholic.org/Default.aspx
Remind the good cardinal that there is a reason Cardinal Law is no longer around.
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St. Francis of Assisi
Francis of Assisi (Giovanni Francesco Bernardone, 1181-1226) is known as the patron saint of animals, the environment and Italy. He was the founder of the Order of Friars Minor, known as the Franciscans. He was ordained a deacon. Two years before his death, he received the stigmata, the real and painful wounds of Christ in his hands, feet and side.
Francis was a poor little man who inspired the Church by taking the gospel literally—not in a narrow fundamentalist sense, but by actually following all that Jesus said and did, joyfully, without limit and without a mite of self-importance. “Preach the Gospel at all times,” he said, “and use words if necessary.”
From the cross in the chapel of San Damiano, Jesus told him, “Go and repair my house, for it is nearly falling down.” Not understanding, Francis began physical repairs of the church until it was revealed to him that it was the entire Church that needed repairs. Soon he started to preach about returning to God and obedience to the Church.
Today our Church is suffering from a modern version of the decay that Francis tried to repair. Some priests, bishops and other Church leaders have gone astray and are leading the faithful away from the Truth of Jesus, reminiscent of the dragon in Revelation 12:4 “Its tail swept away a third of the stars in the sky and hurled them down to the earth.”
This site is dedicated to Repairing the Church of Christ, where necessary. It is orthodox and will proudly defend the tradition of the Holy Roman Catholic Church and His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI.
St. Juniper, by the way, was one of St. Francis’ first followers. Join us to serve Christ and his Church.
