2021 Archive

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MEMBER ALERT

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2021

CONTACT: C. J. DOYLE
(617) 524-6309
catholicactionleague@gmail.com

CATHOLIC SCHOOL PARENTS ORGANIZE TO OPPOSE MANDATES

The imposition of mask mandates in Catholic schools, along with discriminatory restrictions inflicted on students because of their vaccination status, is provoking a long awaited reaction among parents who understand that they, not teachers or school administrators, are the primary educators of their own children.

It is up to parents, not bureaucrats or so-called professional educators, to determine what is best for the health and well being of their sons and daughters.

On Wednesday, January 5th, Parents Choice MA will hold a meeting for Parents’ Choice in the Archdiocese of Boston Catholic Schools. They will be calling upon the Archdiocese to end its school mask mandate on January 15th, and to provide Catholic school parents with an exit strategy and off ramp for Covid protocols.

The Superintendent of Catholic Schools in the Archdiocese, Thomas Carroll, will be in attendance, and the organizers are hoping that parents will be able to speak with Cardinal O’Malley, via Zoom.

If you are a parent, guardian or family member of a Catholic school student, or simply believe in parental rights and parental choice in education, you are encouraged to participate in this important event.

The meeting will be held from 7pm to 9pm at Crown Plaza Woburn, 15 Middlesex Canal Park, Woburn, MA 01801. For more information, please contact Chris McKenna at cmckenna7901@hotmail.com.

America’s increasingly authoritarian Covid regime is producing some unexpected consequences. Private and parochial school attendance is surging, as is home schooling. This country may be witnessing the beginning of a vast populist movement by dispossessed parents to reclaim their rightful place in the education of their children.

Please join in this vital initiative on January 5th!

Thank you.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM THE CATHOLIC ACTION LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS!

YOU AND YOUR FAMILY HAVE A BLESSED AND MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25, 2021

Gloria in excelsis Deo. Et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis.

As we celebrate the birth of the Word made Flesh, let us also rejoice in our devotions to the glorious saints of the Christmas Season:

• Saint Stephen, the Proto-Martyr, on December 26th;
• Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist, on December 27th;
• The Holy Innocents, Heavenly Patrons of the Pro-Life cause, on December 28th; and
• Saint Thomas of Canterbury, Defender of the Faith, on December 29th.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us.

Saint Joseph, Head of the Holy Family, pray for us.

Beloved: The grace of God our Savior hath appeared to all men, instructing us, in order that, rejecting ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live temperately and justly and piously in this world, looking for the blessed hope and glorious coming of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ: Who gave Himself for us that He might redeem us from all iniquity and cleanse to Himself a people acceptable, pursuing good works. Thus speak and exhort, in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The Epistle of Blessed Paul the Apostle to Titus [2:11-15], for the Mass at Midnight, on the Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ

THE PROCLAMATION OF THE BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST

FROM THE ROMAN MARTYROLOGY OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT

The Twenty-Fifth of December

In the year, from the creation of the world, when in the beginning God created Heaven and earth, five thousand one hundred and ninety-nine;

from the flood, two thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven;

from the birth of Abraham, two thousand and fifteen;

from Moses and the coming of the Israelites out of Egypt, one thousand five hundred and ten;

from the anointing of King David, one thousand and thirty-two;

in the sixty-fifth week, according to the prophecy of Daniel;

in the one hundred and ninety-fourth Olympiad;

in the year seven hundred and fifty-two from the foundation of the city of Rome;

in the forty-second year of the empire of Octavian Augustus;

when the whole world was at peace, in the sixth age of the world, Jesus Christ, eternal God, and Son of the eternal Father, desirous to sanctify the world by His most merciful coming, having been conceived of the Holy Ghost, and nine months having elapsed since His conception, is born in Bethlehem of Juda, having become Man of the Virgin Mary:

The Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ according to the flesh.
(Nativitas Domini Nostri Jesu Christi secundum carnem.)

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NEWS UPDATE

PRO-ABORTION OFFICIALS CITE CHURCH IN DENYING RELIGIOUS EXEMPTIONS

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2021

CONTACT: C. J. DOYLE
(617) 524-6309
catholicactionleague@gmail.com

On December 13th, the United States Supreme Court refused an application for injunctive relief from a group of New York health care workers who were denied a religious exemption to the state’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate. Justices Alito, Gorsuch and Thomas dissented.

The State of New York is one of three states willing to grant some medical exemptions to its vaccine mandate, but has no provision for religious exemptions. The Albany mandate is not a law, but a regulation, part of the New York State Administrative Code, issued by the Health Commissioner on the advice of the State Public Health and Health Planning Council.

Disgraced, outgoing Governor Andrew Cuomo, despite his support for a 2019 law eliminating religious exemptions from school vaccination requirements, promised that a religious exemption would be permitted under this mandate. The initial version of the mandate did contain the exemption.

It was Cuomo’s successor, Governor Kathy Hochul, a nominal Catholic and a graduate of Catholic University of America Columbus Law School, who, apparently, pressured the Health Council to revise the regulation, deleting the religious exemption. On September 15th, Hochul acknowledged that “... we left off [the religious exemption] in our regulations intentionally.”

In defending her decision, Hochul cited Pope Francis, arguing that she was not aware of a “sanctioned religious exemption from any organized religion” but instead organized religions are “encouraging the opposite.” She then added that “everybody from the Pope on down is encouraging people to get vaccinated.”

In her brief opposing the injunction, New York Attorney General Letitia James, representing Governor Hochul, echoed the Governor’s words, invoking both the Pope and the U. S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in claiming that there was no religious justification for vaccine refusal.

James wrote “Pope Francis, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church (with which all but one of the plaintiffs are affiliated), has recognized that taking an approved COVID-19 vaccine is ‘an act of love’ and ‘a simple yet profound way to care for one another, especially the most vulnerable.’ The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has explained that receiving the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines is consistent with the Catholic faith because those vaccines did not use fetal cell lines for their ‘design, development, or production,’ and the connection between those vaccines and abortion ‘is very remote.’”

On July 30th, three weeks before Governor Hochul was sworn in, the Archdiocese of New York issued a directive forbidding priests from helping pro-life Catholics seeking an exemption from any requirement which would force them to receive an abortion tainted vaccine. The directive stated “Pope Francis has made it very clear that it is morally acceptable to take any of the vaccines and said we have the moral responsibility to get vaccinated. Cardinal Dolan has said the same.”

Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment: “It would be easy to criticize the intellectual dishonesty of Governor Hochul. Her hypocrisy is grotesque but unsurprising. A pretended Catholic who rejects perennial Church teaching—founded upon Divine and natural law—on the sanctity of life and the character of marriage, Hochul rushes to extol the opinions of the Pope and the bishops on vaccination.”

“A more pertinent and more serious issue however is the possible role of Pope Francis, along with most prominent Catholic jurisdiction in America, the Archdiocese of New York, in enabling and emboldening Hochul.”

“Given that even Andrew Cuomo was prepared to allow religious exemptions, one must ask if the the manifest hostility of the New York archdiocese to religious exemptions for Catholics, abetted by the glib rhetoric of Francis, encouraged Hochul to embrace this extreme position, so antithetical to religious liberty and the rights of conscience.”

“Once again, pro-life Catholics, many of whom are facing catastrophic consequences for their fidelity to principle, including the loss of employment, health insurance and educational opportunities, have been betrayed by their spiritual leaders, who appear to have become, effectively, collaborators in the culture of death. For faithful Catholics, it seems at this time in history, as if we are living under a kind of alien occupation of our Church.”

The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dr. A et al v. Hochul, was the third time since October 29th that a high court consisting of six Catholics, five of whom are Republican appointees and five of whom are presumed conservatives, denied injunctive relief to health care workers who lost their jobs for refusing to violate their consciences.

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PRESS STATEMENT

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

CONTACT: C. J. DOYLE
(617) 524-6309
catholicactionleague@gmail.com

STATE SENATE PASSES RADICAL SEX ED MEASURE

On September 23, the Massachusetts Senate voted, by a margin of 38 to 1, to engross Senate Bill 2541—An Act Relative To Healthy Youth—a radical sexual education mandate for all public schools in the Commonwealth.

The measure would eliminate local control, compromise parental rights, impose salacious, graphically impure instruction upon a captive audience of innocent schoolchildren, and promote an agenda of population control, homosexuality, and so-called transgenderism in the public schools.

Senator Ryan Fattman (R-Webster) was the sole dissenting vote. The proposed law has now been referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

On September 23rd, the day of the vote, Mr. Bob Katzen, Publisher of the Beacon Hill Roll Call, contacted the Catholic Action League, requesting a comment on the legislation.

Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle issued the following statement:

"S 2541 seems to be more about ideological proselytism than public health. If this measure becomes law, public schools—which are agencies of the government—will be empowered to tell schoolchildren that abortion, contraceptive use, same sex relations and so-called gender transitioning are valid, morally acceptable behaviors."

"The provision requiring 'affirmative education' about sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression will preclude any critical discussion of these practices. This is not constitutionally mandated neutrality, but overt, taxpayer funded hostility to religion and traditional religious values."

"As before, there will be no conscience protections for school employees who object to this indoctrination, and the burden remains on parents to opt out of this curriculum, rather than upon the school district to encourage parents to opt in."

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LETTER TO BOSTON COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Adam Lewis, Principal
Boston College High School
150 Morrissey Boulevard
Boston, MA 02125

Dear Mr. Lewis,

Since virtually all Catholic institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth have mandated Covid vaccination as a condition of attendance, some without any provision for religious exemptions, Catholic parents and students have been contacting the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts to express their concerns.

Many have conscientious objections to the reception of vaccines which used fetal stem cell lines, derived from procured abortions, in their production or testing. Others have legitimate reservations founded upon possible health complications.

The Covid response procedures among Catholic secondary schools seem less uniform. I recently learned of your August 31st letter to BC High parents and guardians, in which you stated “Again, vaccinations are required for students to be involved in athletics and co-curricular activities.”

It is understandable to implement, prudently, every precaution, and as you point out, even the Holy Father endorses vaccination. Nonetheless, depriving some students of full participation in the educational experience of high school, based on their vaccination status, may be regarded, reasonably, as coercive pressure to accept vaccination.

This is a practice prohibited by Catholic teaching. According to an instruction issued by the doctrinal dicastery of the Holy See, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Catholics cannot be forced to receive abortion tainted vaccines.

The Note on the morality of using some anti-Covid-19 vaccines, issued on December 21, 2020, after approval by Pope Francis, stated that the reception of abortion tainted vaccines is “morally acceptable,” if “ethically irreproachable” vaccines are unavailable. This is justified as a matter of remote and passive material cooperation.

The document does make clear however, that “At the same time, practical reason makes evident that vaccination is not, as a rule, a moral obligation and that, therefore, it must be voluntary.”

Consistent with this instruction, the Catholic Schools Office of the Archdiocese of Boston in its Announcement of Greater Flexibility Regarding COVID Rules for Catholic Schools, Fall 2021, states “Presently, Covid vaccination is not mandated by state law. Covid vaccination of faculty, staff or children may not be mandated by a Catholic school.”

The National Catholic Bioethics Center, whose Directors include Cardinals O’Malley, Dolan and DiNardo, has stated “If any institution mandates COVID-19 vaccination, the NCBC strongly urges robust, transparent, and readily accessible exemptions for medical, religious, and conscience reasons.” It added “Catholic institutions, in particular, should respect the decisions of people to decline the use of vaccines dependent on abortion-derived cell lines.”

The Catholic Medical Association, the largest organization of Catholic physicians and health care professionals in the United States, also opposes vaccination mandates which do not offer the opportunity for religious exemptions.

The Boston College High School website emphasizes, appropriately, the importance of conscience, and the value of diversity and inclusion.

I urge you, therefore, to revisit the decision to exclude some students from full participation in their high school education because of either their conscientious objection to the reception of abortion tainted vaccines, or their well founded concerns about the medical consequences of such reception.

Sincerely,

C. Joseph Doyle, Executive Director
Catholic Action League of Massachusetts
35 Montclair Avenue
Boston, MA 02132
catholicactionleague@gmail.com

cc Grace Cotter Regan, President
    Boston College High School

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NEWS UPDATE

FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 2021

CONTACT: C. J. DOYLE
(617) 524-6309
catholicactionleague@gmail.com

SUPPORT GROWS FOR CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION TO VACCINE MANDATES

Despite the scandalous discrimination against pro-life Catholics by Jesuit administered Boston College, a growing number of Catholic organizations are defending the right of conscientious objection to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

Meanwhile, individual pro-life Catholics, and others, are mounting legal challenges to both Catholic and secular institutions, after being denied religious exemptions from the policy of coerced vaccinations.

I. Catholic organizations—Two Catholic Conferences, representing the bishops of Colorado and Wisconsin, have issued statements endorsing religious exemptions. The Colorado statement firmly maintains "We understand that some individuals have well-founded convictions that lead them to discern they should not get vaccinated...Throughout history, human rights violations and a loss of respect for each person's God-given dignity often begin with government mandates that fail to respect the freedom of conscience. In the case of the COVID-19 vaccine, we are convinced that the government should not impose medical interventions on an individual or group of persons. We urge respect for each person's convictions and personal choices."

The Wisconsin statement, though discouraging priests from participating in exemption requests, nonetheless admits "Nobody should violate the sanctity of conscience by forcing a person to do something contrary to his or her conscience. There are many health or ethical reasons why a person may refuse COVID-19 vaccination."

The Catholic Medical Association, the largest organization of Catholic physicians and health care professionals in the United States, has stated forthrightly "CMA opposes mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations as a condition of employment without conscience or religious exemptions." It went on to say "As calls increase for universal vaccination as a condition of employment, a lack of accommodation will result in an individual's inability to work in their chosen vocation...while exacerbating existing hesitancy and distrust regarding the COVID-19 vaccines."

In a powerfully worded statement, the National Catholic Bioethics Center insisted "If any institution mandates COVID-19 vaccination, the NCBC strongly urges robust, transparent, and readily accessible exemptions for medical, religious, and conscience reasons." It also added "Catholic institutions, in particular, should respect the decisions of people to decline use of vaccines dependent on abortion-derived cell lines." The NCBC provides a template letter for exemption requests, offers guidance on ethical issues pertaining to vaccine use, and furnishes an instruction on Church teaching.

II. Legal challenges—Two Jesuit universities—Loyola in Chicago, and Fordham in New York—have relented in the matter of religious exemptions (at least for those students enjoying legal representation) after being threatened with lawsuits by two public interest law firms.

Forty Loyola students have had their exemption denials reversed following an intervention by the Liberty Counsel. We The Patriots USA has secured reversals for, at least, two Fordham students.

A lawsuit has been filed against the University of Massachusetts, on behalf of two students, by Attorney Ryan P. McLane, the Legal Counsel for The Family Freedom Endeavor.

The Catholic Action League has learned that Attorney Michael K. Gillis, President of the Catholic Lawyers Guild of the Archdiocese of Boston, is now representing two individuals who were denied religious exemptions, one a student at the University of Massachusetts, and the other an employee of Boston College.

Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment: "As coercion increases from governing elites, resistance from the ordinary citizens who are their victims appears to be growing. The question remains of how many innocent persons will lose their livelihood and be deprived of their education because of the callous and disdainful authoritarianism which characterizes the new American ruling class."

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

AUGUST 17, 2021

The People's Forum
Telegram & Gazette
100 Front Street, Floor 5
Worcester, MA 01608-1440
letters@telegram.com

To the Editor:

The op-ed column by two officials of the College of the Holy Cross advocating Catholic acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccine was marred by a disturbing omission, (COVID-19 and the Catholic conscience, 8/12/2021).

Although citing the statement by the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith that the use of the vaccine is morally permissible, the authors failed to point out that the same statement—just four sentences further down—also said that “vaccination is not, as a rule, a moral obligation and that, therefore, it must be voluntary.”

An honest moral analysis of this issue would have included that finding.

Sincerely,

C. J. Doyle
Executive Director
Catholic Action League of Massachusetts
PO Box 112
Boston, MA 02131
(617) 524-6309
catholicactionleague@gmail.com

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ACTION ALERT!!

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 2021

CONTACT: C. J. DOYLE
(617) 524-6309
catholicactionleague@gmail.com

SYMPATHETIC PRO-LIFE PHYSICIANS NEEDED!

The secularized, culturally conforming leadership of once Catholic, Jesuit administered Boston College remains intransigent in its malign determination to coerce pro-life Catholic students to accept an abortion tainted vaccine or face the end of their academic career at the university.

Some concerned parents are now turning to the possibility of securing a medical exemption from the vaccine mandate for their sons and daughters.

Unfortunately, while the deadline for vaccinations is August 23rd, parents have now learned that the deadline for medical exemption applications is this Friday, August 6th.

There is a desperate and immediate need for sympathetic, pro-life physicians who could perform a telehealth evaluation and find an alternative to the Hobson's choice imposed on faithful Catholic students by hypocritical Jesuits and their authoritarian functionaries—the same ones who have spent the last half century posturing about dialog, dissent and the rights of conscience.

If you know any doctor that might be able to help, please contact the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts as soon as possible, and we will put them in touch with these suffering Catholic families.

Our email is catholicactionleague@gmail.com. Our telephone number is (617) 524-6309.

The cause is just, the need is grave, and the time is now.

Thank you.

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NEWS UPDATE

MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 2021

CONTACT: C. J. DOYLE
(617) 524-6309
catholicactionleague@gmail.com

CATHOLICS ARE NOT REQUIRED TO RECEIVE ABORTION TAINTED VACCINES

Despite opinions expressed by Pope Francis, Cardinal Sean O'Malley and other prelates, faithful Catholics are not required, by Church teaching or Canon Law, to receive abortion tainted vaccines.

Pro-life Catholics have serious, reasonable, well founded and sincerely held moral and religious objections to the reception of vaccines contaminated by the use of fetal stem cells—obtained through procured abortions—in their production or testing.

The Catholic Action League has learned that Stonehill College, administered by the Holy Cross Fathers, and the College of the Holy Cross, administered by the Society of Jesus, have been willing to grant religious exemptions from vaccine mandates to pro-life Catholic students. Jesuit controlled Boston College however, still refuses to do so.

Boston College has imposed a mandate on all students, faculty and staff to receive a Covid-19 vaccination as a condition of continuing at the university for the 2021-2022 academic year.

While a university spokesman has stated, in a Boston Herald story on July 13th, that BC will grant religious exemptions to this requirement, it will not do so for Catholics. The standard which BC has contrived is that such exemptions will only be allowed for those for whom vaccination is prohibited by the tenets of their faith.

According to this reasoning, since Pope Francis and Cardinal Sean O'Malley, the Archbishop of Boston, support vaccinations, Catholics have no grounds for religious exemptions, and are therefore ineligible. From what we have heard, applications for religious exemptions from pro-life Catholics have been met with immediate and automatic denials, sometimes within hours.

On Friday, the Archdiocese of New York ordered diocesan priests not to assist pro-life Catholics seeking religious exemptions from vaccine mandates. In Boston, Catholics seeking exemptions are finding some priests, at least, to be unsympathetic and unresponsive.

This practice however, is discordant with the official position of the doctrinal dicastery of the Holy See.

According to an instruction issued by the Vatican's Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on December 21, 2021, Catholics cannot be forced to receive abortion tainted vaccines.

Disappointingly, the Note on the morality of using some anti-Covid-19 vaccines says that the reception of abortion tainted vaccines is "morally acceptable," if "ethically irreproachable" vaccines are unavailable. This is justified as a matter of "remote", and "passive material cooperation."

The document does make clear however, that "At the same time, practical reason makes evident that vaccination is not, as a rule, a moral obligation and that, therefore, it must be voluntary."

Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment: "In coercing the consciences of pro-life students, Boston College is not only committing an injustice, but is contravening the clear instructions of the Holy See."

"While BC's rejection of Catholic teaching is notorious and longstanding, even more disturbing is the apparent support for this policy from the Archdiocese of Boston. In a July 12th Boston Herald story, M.C. Sullivan, the Chief Health Care Ethicist for Cardinal O'Malley, defended Boston College, saying that 'There’s a positive moral obligation to save lives' by getting vaccinated."

"Pro-life Catholics ought to ask Cardinal O'Malley whom he supports in this controversy, Boston College or the Vatican. Does Cardinal Sean believe that pro-life students at BC ought to be, effectively, expelled for following their Catholic conscience? Why won't he speak about this injustice in Boston the way he spoke out, just last April, about an apparent injustice in Minneapolis?"

There is a Contact Us email box on the archdiocesan website. The telephone number for the RCAB is (617) 254-0100.

M.C. Sullivan's office telephone number is 617-746-5734.

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MEMBER ALERT

TUESDAY, JULY 27, 2021

CONTACT: C. J. DOYLE
(617) 524-6309
catholicactionleague@gmail.com

PRO-LIFE ATTORNEYS NEEDED!

Pro-Life Catholic students at Boston College are facing a hard deadline of August 13, 2021 to undergo COVID-19 vaccination or accept the end of their academic life at the Jesuit university.

These principled students and their parents have well founded conscientious objections to the reception of vaccines derived from the procured abortion of innocent children.

Of the four COVID vaccines, Oxford-Astrid Zeneca and Johnson & Johnson used fetal cell lines in production, while Moderna and Pfizer used fetal cell lines in testing.

The Catholic Action League is hearing heartrending stories of personal suffering, financial distress, academic dislocation, and in the case of graduate students, the potential for career ending professional ruin.

The League has even received a report that Boston College is not only denying religious exemptions, but is granting only a minuscule number of medical exemptions.

BC claims that it has a right to discriminate against Catholics in the provision of religious exemptions because such exemptions will only be allowed if vaccination violates "the fundamental tenets of a faith."

As Pope Francis and Cardinal O'Malley have endorsed vaccination, faithful Catholics who reject the bureaucratic policy preference of Church leaders, have, according to this arbitrary and Pharisaical standard, no legitimate grounds for refusing a vaccine.

This standard is plainly unlawful.

In Dalli v. Board of Education, a landmark religious freedom decision in 1971, the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth ruled that limiting religious exemptions to those who adhere to “the tenets and practice of a recognized church or religious denomination”—the BC standard—“violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution, as well as Article II of the Declaration of Rights of the Massachusetts Constitution.”

The court's decision resulted in Chapter 76, Section 15 of the Massachusetts General Laws—which mandates vaccinations as a condition of primary and secondary school attendance in the Commonwealth—being amended to allow religious exemptions to individuals on the basis of their “sincere religious beliefs,” without regard to the official position of their church.

The 1997 Massachusetts Religious Freedom in the Workplace Law also substitutes "sincerely held religious beliefs" for the previous "tenets and practice" clause.

As neither Boston College, nor the Archdiocese of Boston, nor the Holy See have any sympathy, solicitude or interest in the concerns of pro-life Catholics in this matter, their only possible redress is in the secular courts.

Pro-life students and parents now have less than two and a half weeks to seek injunctive relief. If any pro-life attorneys are willing to help in this urgent and important cause, please contact the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts at catholicactionleague@gmail.com or at 617-524-6309.

Our fellow Catholics are suffering for their Faith and for their pro-life convictions, and need our help, today.

Thank you.

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NEWS RELEASE

FRIDAY, JULY 16, 2021

CONTACT: C. J. DOYLE
(617) 524-6309
catholicactionleague@gmail.com

POPE FRANCIS SUPPRESSES THE TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS

The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today criticized the decision of Pope Francis to effectively suppress the traditional Latin liturgy of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church.

Earlier today, the Pope issued the Apostolic Letter Traditionis Custodes, accompanied by an explanatory letter to the world's Catholic bishops.

Contrary to recent press reports and leaks from Vatican sources, the Pope's Motu Proprio goes far beyond rumored modifications to Summorum Pontificum, the 2007 document by Pope Benedict XVI which removed most remaining restrictions on the Latin liturgy.

Pope Francis declared "I take the firm decision to abrogate all the norms, instructions, concessions and customs prior to this Motu Proprio..." and goes on to say that "I am forced to revoke the faculty granted by my Predecessors..."

The Pope repealed the key provision of Summorum, which permitted priests to celebrate the old Mass without episcopal permission. Pope Francis now forbids the establishment of new Latin Mass groups, the erection of new personal parishes for the Latin liturgy, and the celebration of the Latin Mass in "parochial churches," meaning parishes. He also authorizes bishops to suppress existing Latin Mass parishes.

Priests seeking to say the Mass must now secure not only the permission of their local bishop, but that of the Holy See, while religious orders and fraternities created to celebrate the traditional liturgy will now fall under the hostile jurisdiction of the Roman Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies for Apostolic Life, one of the more "progressive" dicasteries of the curia.

The conditions which the Pope imposes on the continued celebration of the old liturgy are likely to be deal breakers for most traditional Catholics. These include vernacular languages for readings and the use of new translations. Catholics will also be required to affirm the "validity and the legitimacy" of the new liturgy.

The Pope's letter to the bishops is even more draconian. In it, he accuses traditional Catholics of trying to "increase distances, harden differences, build contrasts that hurt the Church."

Implying that the Latin Mass must be ultimately abolished, Francis urges bishops to "work to return to a unitary celebratory form," and states that traditional Catholics "need time to return to the Roman Rite promulgated by Saint Paul VI..."

The Catholic Action League characterized the Pope's decision as "extreme, arbitrary, and punitive," and called it "an ideologically motivated injustice intended not to restrict, but to entirely suppress the traditional Mass and to marginalize, in the life of the Church, those who adhere to it."

Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment: "At a time when Catholic numbers are imploding, when schools and parishes are being closed, and when people are hemorrhaging out of the Church, one can only wonder why any rational person would seek to to destroy the one movement in the Church which is experiencing substantial growth, and which is attracting young Catholic families."

"One notes with irony, that the same Pontiff who said "Who am I to judge?" when questioned about homosexuals in the priesthood, is willing to render a shockingly severe judgment against traditional Catholics who wish only to remain faithful to their spiritual patrimony."

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NEWS RELEASE

TUESDAY, JULY 13, 2021

CONTACT: C. J. DOYLE
(617) 524-6309
catholicactionleague@gmail.com

CATHOLIC ACTION LEAGUE REBUKES BOSTON COLLEGE FOR DENYING VACCINE EXEMPTIONS TO PRO-LIFE CATHOLICS

The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today criticized the decision of Jesuit administered Boston College to deny religious exemptions to pro-life Catholics who have moral objections to the reception of COVID-19 vaccines.

The university has imposed a mandate for all students, faculty, and staff to receive a COVID-19 vaccination by August 13, 2021. Medical and religious exemptions will be permitted, but not to Catholics.

BC spokesman Ed Hayward said: “Exemptions are considered for legitimate medical and religious reasons. A religious exemption may be granted if vaccination goes against the fundamental tenets of a faith. Given that Pope Francis, Cardinal Sean, and millions of Catholics worldwide have been vaccinated, it is difficult for Catholics to make an argument against a COVID-19 vaccination.”

MC Sullivan, the Chief Health Care Ethicist for the Archdiocese of Boston, effectively endorsed the BC decision, saying the vaccines "do not contain any immorally illicit material."

Even though the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines do not contain fetal tissue, a fetal cell line from 1973 was used in the confirmation phase of the vaccines' development. Pro-life Catholics believe that it is morally repugnant to receive a medical benefit from a vaccine compromised by the procured abortion of an innocent child.

Some Catholic parents of Boston College students are resisting the university's mandate. Stephanie Grimes, a registered nurse, said BC denied a request for an exemption for her daughter, but Ivy League Dartmouth College—a secular institution—granted a religious exemption to another child. “I'm disgusted. You're allowed to use your conscience as a Catholic,” Grimes said.

The Catholic Action League called the BC policy "an appalling act of disrespect—by an ostensibly Catholic institution—for the consciences and convictions of faithful Catholics."

Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment: "At a time when most American Catholics have conformed to the dominant culture and accepted the legality of abortion, one would think that a Catholic university would be understanding, even supportive, towards the conscientious concerns of believing Catholics who affirm the sanctity and dignity of innocent human life from conception to natural death."

"Instead, those faithful Catholics are being betrayed, coerced and penalized by a Jesuit institution. The position of the Archdiocese of Boston in this matter is disappointing but unsurprising."

"The principal constituencies of both Boston College and the Archdiocese of Boston appear to be socially liberal major donors, along with the media and governing classes. For both institutions, orthodox, pro-life Catholics have long been a disfavored minority."

Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle is an alumnus of Boston College.

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NEWS ADVISORY

THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 2021

CONTACT: C. J. DOYLE
(617) 524-6309
catholicactionleague@gmail.com

IN DEFENSE OF THE HOLY EUCHARIST

Since the infamous, 1973 United States Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, more than 62 million innocent pre-born children have been cruelly killed through surgical and so-called medical, or chemical, abortions.  

The grave scandal of elected officials who identify themselves as Catholics enabling this hideous slaughter by preserving its legality, opposing all restrictions on it, and even using tax dollars to subsidize it, has caused some American bishops to insist that the issue of Eucharistic coherence must be addressed. 

By this they mean that the Church's traditional Eucharistic discipline, expressed by the words of Saint Paul the Apostle, and reflected in the Code of Canon Law, should be restored, and Holy Communion should be withheld from those in a state of "manifest grave sin."

This move to defend the integrity of the sacrament has provoked division within the hierarchy, defiance from the offenders, and hate speech in the media.

The most effective recent exposition of traditional Catholic teaching on this subject is a short instruction, in his column, "Plainly Speaking," by Brother Thomas Augustine, M.I.C.M., the Superior of the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Still River, Massachusetts. 

Published this week by the Saint Benedict Center in its magazine, From The Housetops, Brother Thomas' explanation is lucid, concise, timely, forthright, unimpeachably orthodox and readily comprehensible. With Brother's kind permission, the Catholic Action League is privileged to reprint it here below:

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NEWS RELEASE

TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 2021

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REPUBLICAN LEGISLATORS DEMAND OUSTER OF ORTHODOX CATHOLIC

On June 6th, twenty-nine of the thirty Republican members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives sent a letter to the Chairman of the Bay State's Republican Party, James J. Lyons, Jr., demanding that he condemn, and call for the resignation of, a member of the Republican State Committee who expressed views criticalof homosexuality. In an ultimatum, the signatories demanded that Lyons resign if he refused to do so.

Deborah Martell of Ludlow, an orthodox Catholic and one of eighty elected members of the GOP's state committee, expressed the traditional Christian sensibility—once normative in Western society—of disgust at the vice of sodomy. In an email to Republican congressional candidate Jeffrey Sossa-Paquette, she indicated that she was "sickened" that Sossa-Paquette and his civil "husband" had adopted two children.

Martell's message to Sossa-Paquette read:

“I am a Catholic who loves God and His Ten Commandments. I wish the best for every person in the world, including you! What sickened me was that you adopted children. All children deserve a mom and a dad at that’s probably why you had great difficulty adopting them. If you are going to quote me, please quote me correctly. I wrote, I heard he was a “married” homosexual man, who adopted children. That’s what sickened me. Children deserve a mom and a dad. That’s how God designed marriage and the family. I wish all the best for you!”

Governor Charlie Baker called her remarks "abhorrent," and "bigoted." Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said, "There is no place for discrimination in our party."

State GOP Vice-Chairman Tom Mountain (who is rumored to be seeking a place in the Baker Administration) said, "We don’t want someone who’s antigay on our state committee," while State Representative Shawn Dooley has circulated a petition to the state committee condemning "hateful ideology" and "intolerance".

All three Republicans in the State Senate also denounced Martell. The only Republican legislator who declined to sign the letter was State Representative Marc Lombardo of Billerica.

State Committee Chairman Lyons, a former four term Republican state representative, issued a statement on June 6th calling Martell's remarks "offensive," but refused to call for her resignation, saying "...freedom of speech and religious liberty are values that are unbending and uncompromising." Lyons called Martell a "...woman of deep Catholic faith..."

The Catechism of the Catholic Church, authorized by Pope Saint John Paul II, described homosexual acts as "grave depravity." In Catholic tradition, the sin of impurity against nature is the second of the four sins—after the willful murder of the innocent—which "crieth to heaven for vengeance."

The Catholic Action League called the letter from the Republican legislators—many of whom are Catholics with pro-life voting records and endorsements—"an act of abject appeasement towards a powerful and aggressive special interest, compounded by a cowardly fear of the mainstream corporate media."

Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made thefollowing comment: "The members of Neville Chamberlain caucus of the Massachusetts Legislature fail to understand that organized homosexualism is a totalitarian movement which aims to censor, silence, punish, demonize and suppress anyone who opposes it. Sacrificing Deborah Martell will not protect them from its wrath."

"When so-called gay rights was being discussed in the 1980's, its proponents claimed they only wanted to end discrimination—largely non-existent—in housing and employment. Now they want to shame, stigmatize and exclude from political life and civil society anyone who expresses natural feelings of revulsion at the act of sodomy, and at the idea that those who practice this form of moral turpitude ought to be entrusted with the care of children."

"Those elected officials who signed this letter have gained nothing but the contempt of honest men and women. No one will ever trust them again. They have demonstrated, with unmistakable clarity, that they are not conservatives, but careerists, who have sold their birthright for a mess of pottage."

"The message which they have sent by theirpusillanimity is that the Massachusetts Republican party remains, as it was before, a capitalist political party, willing to take the votes of social conservatives, but ultimately hostile to the defense of Christian civilization."

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ACTION ALERT!!

TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 2021

CONTACT: C. J. DOYLE
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TELL REPUBLICANS: CENSURE OF MARTELL MEANS ‘NO CATHOLICS NEED APPLY’

On Wednesday evening, June 9th at 6:45, the Massachusetts Republican State Committee will meet to consider the controversy over Deborah Martell, the state committeewoman from Ludlow who enraged elite opinion by expressing disgust at homosexual adoption.

Martell, an orthodox Catholic, after being baited and insulted by a homosexual Republican running for Congress, told him that while she wished him the best, she was "sickened" that he and his civil "husband" had adopted children.

With the exception of State Representative Marc Lombardo, every Republican in the Legislature demanded that she resign, as did Governor Charlie Baker. State Representative Shawn Dooley, a member of the state committee, will move a resolution at the committee meeting condemning Martell, calling on her to resign, and castigating her traditional Catholic beliefs as "hateful and bigoted," "repulsive" and "evil."

Even Pope Francis has denounced homosexual adoption, criticizing it as discrimination against children.

Catholics must make clear, unequivocally, to the Republican leadership that any censure of Deborah Martell for her faithful Catholic witness will be the same as hanging a sign on the door of the state committee which reads NO CATHOLICS NEED APPLY.

Any condemnation of Martell will constitute both an endorsement of homosexual adoption and a public call for overt discrimination against believing Catholics in the Massachusetts Republican Party!

Please express your outrage and disgust at this brazen anti-Catholic bigotry by contacting the members of the Republican State Committee and demanding that they oppose the Dooley resolution, and support Deborah Martell and Chairman Jim Lyons!

Tell them that you will remember next November what they do on Wednesday night!

The enclosed link provides the email addresses and telephone numbers of the members of the state committee.

Please contact them today!

Thank you.

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NEWS UPDATE

MONDAY, MAY 31, 2021

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CATHOLIC INSTITUTIONS EMBRACE CULTURE OF DEATH

May is the month of Our Lady. It is also the month when Catholic educational institutions in Massachusetts—and their parent religious orders—abandon the charism of their founders, repudiate Divine and natural law, and embrace the Culture of Death. They make this submission by inviting as commencement speakers, and conferring honorary degrees upon, public figures who promote the slaughter of the innocent unborn.

The Catholic Action League has already publicized the shameful and scandalous decision by the College of the Holy Cross—administered by the Society of Jesus—to honor Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U. S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations.

As we pointed out, Thomas-Greenfield is a proponent of abortion and a defender of sodomy. As an Assistant Secretary of State in the Obama Administration, she oversaw U. S. population control policies in sub-Saharan Africa.

Holy Cross was not an outlier however, among the Catholic colleges of the Bay State. In 2021 the other Catholic institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth vied with Holy Cross in their quest to make Catholic moral teachings irrelevant to modern society.

• The other and larger Jesuit institution in Massachusetts, Boston College, invited New York Times op-ed columnist David Brooks, to address its graduates. Brooks, a faux conservative and social liberal, is a longtime supporter of legal abortion and same sex so-called marriage. He also received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the university.
• Stonehill College—administered by the Congregation of the Holy Cross—hosted as its 2021 commencement speaker, Doctor Judith A. Salerno, the former CEO of the Susan G. Komen Foundation. Salerno assumed leadership of Komen a year after the foundation resumed funding of Planned Parenthood. Stonehill also conferred an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree on Salerno.
• Assumption University—administered by the Congregation of the Augustinians of the Assumption—selected Washington Post columnist George F. Will as its commencement speaker. Will, an ex-Presbyterian, libertarian atheist, is, remarkably, a critic of abortion. He is not pro-life however, as he is a supporter of passive euthanasia—physician assisted suicide. He is also part of the chorus of defamation assassinating the character of Venerable Pope Pius XII. Both the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights and The Media Report have identified him as an anti-Catholic bigot.
• Anna Maria College—administered by the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Anne—conferred an honorary Doctorate of Public Administration on former Boston Police Commissioner William B. Evans, who also served as commencement speaker. Evans was reportedly, after former Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, the key participant in the campaign to pressure, bully and frighten the Allied War Veterans Council of South Boston into admitting homosexual groups into Boston’s Saint Patrick’s Day parade. An object of admiration by serial Catholic basher Margery Eagan, Evans, during a hearing on buffer zone legislation, asserted inaccurately, that there was widespread harassment and obstruction in front of abortion clinics in Boston.
• Merrimack College—administered by the Order of Saint Augustine—conferred an honorary Doctorate of Public Administration on former Lawrence Mayor Daniel Rivera. In 2019, Rivera was one of six Bay State mayors, led by Boston’s Marty Walsh, who stood on the steps of the Massachusetts State House to demand that the Legislature enact the radical ROE Act to expand abortion in the Commonwealth.

The 2004 directive of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholics in Political Life, states "The Catholic community and Catholic institutions should not honor those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles. They should not be given awards, honors or platforms which would suggest support for their actions." For the Catholic Church in Massachusetts, this is now a dead letter.

The Catholic Church claims to believe that innocent human life deserves the protection of law from conception to natural death. Clearly, its institutions of higher education in Massachusetts do not believe this. Clearly, the religious orders which oversee these institutions—Jesuits, Augustinians, Holy Cross Fathers and teaching orders of nuns—do not believe this.

Since the Catholic hierarchy in Massachusetts either tolerates, or in the case of Cardinal O’Malley, actually participates in this overt culture of systemic betrayal, is it not reasonable to assume that the Archbishop of Boston, and the Bishops of Fall River, Worcester and Springfield, do not believe this either?

The pro-life movement in Massachusetts must insist that Catholic bishops give unborn children more than empty rhetoric, disingenuous posturing and token statements that seem more intended to give cover to prelates than to effect the outcome of public controversies.

The hierarchy must be held accountable for these shameful acts of betrayal.

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NEWS RELEASE

THURSDAY, MAY 6, 2021

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ANOTHER CATHOLIC CHURCH VANDALIZED IN GREATER BOSTON

Another Catholic church in Massachusetts has been the target of vandalism. Sometime during the overnight period of Saturday, May 1st, and Sunday, May 2nd, a statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus at Saint Charles Borromeo Chapel in Waltham was decapitated. The statue, located outside the entrance to the church, suffered further damage with its right hand broken off.

This is the seventh reported act of vandalism directed against a Catholic Church in Greater Boston since the beginning of the year, and the fifteenth such incident in the Commonwealth since 2020.

On March 12th, locks were frozen shut with an unidentified sealant at Saint Teresa's Parish in Dorchester and at Saint Monica's Parish in South Boston. A statue of the Virgin Mary at Saint Monica's was also toppled and smashed. The same statue at Saint Monica's was knocked over on March 5th.

Eggs and trash were hurled at the doors of Saint Teresa's on three occasions in January. On two occasions in July of 2020, a garbage barrel was placed over the head of a statue of the Virgin Mary at Saint Teresa's. On the night of the first incident, a statue of the Virgin Mary was the object of arson a mile away at Saint Peter's Parish in Dorchester.

In August of 2020, two Molotov cocktails were hurled at the doors of Sacred Heart Church in Weymouth. Twice, in September and December of 2020, historic stained glass windows in Saint Mary's Cathedral in Fall River suffered costly damage from projectiles. In July of 2020, a statue of the Virgin was stolen from the Nazareth Home in Leicester.

In April of 2020, rocks were thrown through stained glass windows at Holy Family Church in Rockland.

No one has been arrested for any of these crimes.

The Catholic Action League called the latest incident "further compelling evidence of the dramatic escalation in the number and frequency of attacks on Catholic churches and religious iconography in Massachusetts."

Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment: "When the League began tracking these crimes in 2012, they occurred, on average, about once a year. Now, they are being perpetrated at an average of one a month. The numbers quadrupled between 2016 and 2020, and have now quadrupled again between 2020 and 2021. I think it is quite reasonable to say that we are facing a growing epidemic of Catholic church vandalisms in the Bay State."

"Attorney General Maura Healey, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan and Waltham Mayor Jeannette McCarthy must denounce this incident as the hate crime and constitutional rights violation which it is, and take meaningful steps to ensure that the perpetrator is identified, arrested, prosecuted and incarcerated. Governor Charlie Baker, who controls the State Police, must also act."

"When an African American Baptist Church in Everett was vandalized on April 29th, the Mayor of Everett, immediately and appropriately, denounced the incident as a hate crime. No such condemnations have been forthcoming after a year and more than a dozen such incidents directed against Catholic churches in Massachusetts."

While the pastor of Saint Charles Borromeo is to be commended for promptly reporting the vandalism to authorities, the Archdiocese of Boston, over the last year, has failed to demand accountability from police, prosecutors and political leaders. It is time for Cardinal O'Malley to address this issue."

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NEWS RELEASE

FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 2021

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HOLY CROSS TO HONOR PRO‑ABORTION BIDEN CABINET OFFICIAL

The College of the Holy Cross, administered by the Society of Jesus, has invited Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations, to deliver the 2021 Commencement Address in ceremonies to be held on May 21st. She will also receive an honorary degree from the college.

Since the Eisenhower Administration, most U.S. Ambassadors to the UN have held cabinet rank.

A career diplomat, Thomas-Greenfield was Ambassador to Liberia before becoming Director General of the Foreign Service. During the Obama Administration, she served as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, at a time when Obama was pressing African countries to decriminalize sodomy. Thomas-Greenfield claimed at the time, in congressional testimony, that laws against homosexuality in Africa were promoting “renewed violence against the LGBT community.”

The Planned Parenthood Action Fund hailed Thomas-Greenfield's appointment to the UN, saying she and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will lead the "Fight for Reproductive Rights Across the Globe." Equity Forward applauded Thomas-Greenfield's selection, stating that she has "signaled support for reproductive and LGBTQ rights." Her nomination was also welcomed by the homosexual lobbying group Out Right.

As Ambassador to the UN, Thomas-Greenfield has pledged that it is “a personal priority” for her to “be a leader” on the issue of women’s access to “a full range of reproductive health services.” During the Trump Administration, when she worked for a lobbying firm, Thomas-Greenfield derided, on Twitter, Ivanka Trump's support for the right to life, saying "Pro life means supporting the lives of children taken from their parents at the border, poor children and people with Covid..."

The Biden Administration, reversing the policies of U.S. President Donald J. Trump, has re-entered and refunded two UN agencies known for their promotion of abortion, contraception, and population control—the World Health Organization and the United Nations Fund for Population Activities.

The 2004 directive of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholics in Political Life, states "The Catholic community and Catholic institutions should not honor those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles. They should not be given awards, honors or platforms which would suggest support for their actions."

The Catholic Action League called the invitation to Thomas-Greenfield "another repulsive example of the corporate culture of betrayal which pervades the Catholic Church in Massachusetts."

Catholic Action League Executive Director C.J. Doyle made the following comment: "With honorary degree recipients such as television host Chris Matthews, Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau, and Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, honoring abortion proponents is becoming a habit at Holy Cross. It should be apparent by now to any honest observer that Jesuit higher education in this country has openly defected to the opposing side in America's culture wars."

"Faithful Catholics, and all members of the pro-life community in the Commonwealth, must now ask Worcester Bishop Robert McManus if he intends to dignify this travesty and participate in this scandal by attending commencement exercises at Holy Cross in May. They should remind him that, according Catholics in Political Life, what Holy Cross is doing is explicitly forbidden by church law. It is also a disgrace."

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NEWS UPDATE

MONDAY, APRIL 5, 2021

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MORE CATHOLICS APPLAUD MARTY WALSH

Two more leading Catholic institutions in Boston have joined the quisling chorus of praise for U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh, an abortion extremist who is an opponent of religious freedom rights. Jesuit administered Boston College has published an adulatory profile of Walsh on the university website entitled "Mr. Walsh goes to Washington."

Walsh received his undergraduate degree from the university's Woods College of Advancing Studies while serving as a Massachusetts state representative. His 2014 inauguration as Mayor of Boston was held at BC's Conte Forum. Later that year, Boston College honored Walsh with the Distinguished Alumni Award.

The celebratory article, prepared by the BC Communications Office, quotes Walsh for his support for "LGBTQ Americans." In it, Woods College Dean Karen Muncaster lauds Walsh, asserting that "Secretary Walsh embodies the passion and determination that are central to the mission of Woods College. We are proud to have such a distinguished public servant among our graduates, and one who so exemplifies the ideals of BC's Jesuit mission of service to others."

Walsh's Cabinet appointment was also acclaimed by Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Boston. In a message on its website entitled "Thank You Mayor Walsh," the agency said "Congratulations Marty Walsh on your confirmation as our nation's Secretary of Labor. We will miss you and are grateful for your partnership and support of Catholic Charities of Boston. We look forward to watching you continue your great work for the American people just as you've served the people of Boston."

The Board of Trustees of Catholic Charities—officially, the Catholic Charitable Bureau of the Archdiocese of Boston—includes the Most Reverend Peter J. Uglietto, Auxiliary Bishop and Vicar General of the Archdiocese, and the Reverend J. Bryan Hehir, Archdiocesan Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services.

On March 28th, three other prominent Catholic institutions in Boston, Saint Anthony's Shrine, Boston College High School, and Catholic Memorial High School extolled Walsh in a special supplement to The Boston Sunday Globe. Catholic Memorial President Peter Folan called Walsh an "incredible role model for our students."

Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment: “All of these scandalous plaudits for the pro-abortion Walsh violate the explicit prohibitions of the 2004 directive of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholics in Political Life, which states ‘The Catholic community and Catholic institutions should not honor those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles. They should not be given awards, honors or platforms which would suggest support for their actions.’”

"In their obsequiousness towards Marty Walsh however, Catholic institutions in the city are merely following the example of Boston's Archbishop, Cardinal Sean O'Malley. In January of 2014, O'Malley gave the invocation at Walsh's inauguration. In October, 2014, the Missionary Society of Saint James the Apostle, whose President is O'Malley, conferred the “Cardinal Cushing Award for Excellence in Service to Humanity” on Mayor Walsh."

"At the time of this award to Walsh—a supporter of abortion and contraception—Cardinal O'Malley was the Chairman of the Pro-Life Activities Committee of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops."

"On April 19, 2016, the Laboure Center—administered by Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Boston—held its Spring Reception with Cardinal O’Malley. The Honorary Co-Chairpersons of the event were Mayor Walsh and his partner Lorrie Higgins. This came less than two months after Walsh received the 'Men for Choice' Award from NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts. NARAL cited Walsh for his opposition to pro-life crisis pregnancy centers in Boston."

"These episodes are not anomalies. Cardinal O'Malley has a long history of inviting Marty Walsh, and other abortion proponents, to Catholic events and venues, where they are given platforms to speak to Catholics. Just last month, the Cardinal brought two Planned Parenthood allies, Governor Charlie Baker and Lt. Governor Karyn Polito to Saint Mary's School in Lynn."

"For some time now, Boston's Vichyite Catholic establishment has been fully invested in collaborating with what Pope John Paul II called the 'Culture of Death.' Those in the Massachusetts pro-life movement who are accustomed to act with deference towards the leadership of the Archdiocese of Boston, must ask themselves how much longer they are willing to be the enablers of their own betrayal."

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NEWS RELEASE

SUNDAY, MARCH 28, 2021

CONTACT: C. J. DOYLE
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CATHOLIC INSTITUTIONS HAIL PRO‑ABORTION MARTY WALSH

On March 22nd, the U. S. Senate confirmed the appointment of Boston Mayor Marty Walsh as the nation's 29th Secretary of Labor. He resigned as Mayor later that day.

In the print edition of The Boston Sunday Globe of March 28th, there was a twelve page supplement entitled "Thank You Mayor Walsh," where two dozen banks, corporations, contractors, trade unions, civic organizations, schools  and hospitals expressed their praise and gratitude to Walsh for his seven year tenure as mayor.

Included in this fawning coalition of the politically connected were three prominent Catholic institutions in Boston—Saint Anthony's Shrine, the city's popular Franciscan church; Jesuit run Boston College High School; and Catholic Memorial High School, administered by the Congregation of Christian Brothers.

As Mayor, Marty Walsh led a rally on the steps of the Massachusetts State House calling for passage of the radical ROE Act, defended the public funding of Planned Parenthood, said he wanted to make Boston a kind of sanctuary city for abortions should Roe v. Wade be overturned, and renamed Worcester Square in the city's South End after the infamous abortionist, Kenneth Edelin. 

In 2016, Walsh received the "Men for Choice" award from NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts. In 2017, he became the first Bay State mayor ever endorsed by the Planned Parenthood Advocacy Fund of Massachusetts.

Walsh, through the use of threats, bullying, red tape, financial pressure and, at least, one profanity laden public rant, was the person most responsible for the imposition of homosexual groups on Boston's Saint Patrick's Day Parade.

Catholic Memorial, in its ad, actually described Walsh—who opposes Catholicism on the right to life, the definition of marriage and religious freedom—as "An Incredible Role Model For Our Students." On its website, CM states that it challenges its students to "embrace Gospel values."

The Catholic Action League called this public praise of Walsh by Catholic entities a "loathsome and repugnant act of treachery against the Author of Life, the innocent unborn, and the faithful Christians of the pro-life movement."

Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment: "No rational person can reasonably be expected to take seriously Catholic opposition to abortion when Boston's best known Catholic church, along with two elite Catholic secondary schools, lavish praise on a NARAL award recipient."

"The Catholic Church in the U.S. should stop pretending to be pro-life. Its pro-life position is academic and rhetorical, consisting, mostly, of formal statements, which seem intended to provide plausible deniability to bishops while Catholic institutions honor and promote the acolytes of what Pope John Paul II called 'The Culture of Death.'"

"An organization may be judged to be institutionally corrupt if it cannot confront and punish misconduct and disloyalty in its own ranks. For more than four decades now, Catholic schools, colleges, universities, charities, religious orders and fraternal groups have, repeatedly, betrayed the pro-life cause in their servile quest to ingratiate themselves with those who hold and wield political power in America."

"The pro-life movement must abandon its posture of deference towards the American episcopate, and instead, like the victims of sexual abuse, demand accountability from the Catholic hierarchy for this culture of betrayal."

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SAINT JOSEPH, PRAY FOR US!