NEWS RELEASE

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2025

Contact: C. J. Doyle
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LEAGUE HAILS CONSTITUTION DAY

The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts is hailing Constitution Day, September 17th, 2025—the 238th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution of the United States of America.

On this day, in 1787 in Philadelphia, thirty nine Founding Fathers who were delegates to the Constitutional Convention, affixed their signatures to the document which would guarantee the freedom, unity and greatness of a new nation—one borne of the struggle of thirteen former colonies for their independence from the British Empire.

In all, there were 55 delegates to the Convention—now known as the Framers of the Constitution—of whom, 39 were present on the last day of the Convention, September 17th, and signed the American compact.

“The Indispensable Man,” General George Washington, was the Chairman of the Convention.

Another future President, James Madison, would come to be regarded as the “Father of the Constitution,” for his contributions to the deliberations. His famous Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 comprise the principal historical record of the proceedings.

The eminent New York Federalist Gouverneur Morris—a member of the Continental Congress who would become one of the young Republic’s most distinguished diplomats—is believed to be the actual final recorder of the Constitution.

Only one Catholic, Charles Carroll of Carrolton, signed the Declaration of Independence. There were two Catholic Framers of the Constitution however, Charles Carroll’s cousin, Daniel Carroll of Maryland, and Thomas Fitzsimons of Pennsylvania.

American Catholics have a compelling reason and a particular obligation to regard, with affection and gratitude, America’s founding document.

The last line of Article VI of the Constitution states: “...no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.”

For American Catholics, this was the 18th century equivalent of Constantine’s Edict of Milan. For the first time in the English speaking world, since the Protestant Revolution of the 16th century, Catholics could now attain to the full rights of citizenship, including the right to hold elective office.

It would be more than four decades later before Catholic Emancipation finally came to Great Britain and Ireland in 1829. Even the 1780 Constitution of Massachusetts—the expert work of John Adams, Samuel Adams and James Bowdoin—contained an anti-Catholic oath.

All public servants in the Bay State were not only required to “renounce and abjure all allegiance” to any foreign power, but to attest that “no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have any jurisdiction, superiority, preeminence, authority, dispensing or other power, in any matter, civil, ecclesiastical, or spiritual, within this commonwealth.”

It would be at the state constitutional convention of 1820 that this bigoted provision was finally excised.

The Gospel of Saint Matthew instructs us “By their fruits you shall know them. .”

What were the fruits of the U. S. Constitution?

A Republic; an enduring Federal Union; civil liberty and religious freedom; the rule of law; an aspiration, at least, for equal justice under law; democratic governance, prudently tempered by the separation of powers; and an effective unitary executive, more capable of defending the country than the enfeebled collective leadership of the Articles of Confederation.

In certain Catholic intellectual circles, some integralists now assert that the American Founding, and the Constitution which was its achievement, are radically deficient from the standpoint of Catholic teachings about the Social Kingship of Jesus Christ.

Whatever the merit of their arguments, now is not the time to litigate this case. A Constitution that has provided American Catholics two hundred years of liberty and security is now under deadly assault by Leninist totalitarians who would inflict a socialist state and a Marxist society upon America.

The insurmountable obstacle to the malevolent ambitions of these culturcidal barbarians is that indomitable fortress of civilized and representative government known as the Constitution of the United States.

That is why the woke fanatics want to abolish the Electoral College, pack the Supreme Court, deform the Senate, alter the character of the District of Columbia and admit to the Union a territory that is amicable, but not Anglophone.

The great Anglo-Irish parliamentarian Edmund Burke famously wrote that “Manners are of more importance than laws...,” meaning that the habits and customs of a people are more binding than statutes in law books.

The Constitution is not only the supreme law of the land, but is the customary, consensual and long established framework for the governing of America—the keystone of our unity and the charter of our nationhood. It is part of the perennial wisdom of our American civilization.

In what was perhaps the greatest compliment paid by the leader of one country to another country, British Prime Minister William Gladstone said that “...the American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.”

What impressed the mind of Gladstone, is now scorned by the organized ignorance of American “higher” education.

As Catholics and as Americans, let us defend what was handed down to us!

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NEWS UPDATE

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2025

Contact: C. J. Doyle
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WAS CHARLIE KIRK ON THE JOURNEY HOME?

SHOCKER: BOSTON GLOBE SUPPORTS RIGHTS OF CHRISTIANS

MAYOR WU FUNDS HATE GROUP

ANTI-LIFE FANATIC LEAVES ELECTIVE OFFICE

Charlie Kirk and the Journey Home—Both Christine Niles of Stella Maris Media and Raymond Arroyo of Fox News (38:01) and EWTN are reporting that, in the last few months of his life, Charlie Kirk and his wife had been attending Mass at Saint Bernadette Parish in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Kirk, the Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA, was raised Presbyterian, and had long identified as an Evangelical.

In July, he surprised many of his followers when he said the solution to toxic feminism was the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Kirk said that “I think we as Protestants and Evangelicals under-venerate Mary. She was very important. She was a vessel for our Lord and Savior....We don’t talk about Mary enough. We don’t venerate her enough. Mary was clearly important to early Christians.”

The cruel, savage and premeditated murder of Charlie Kirk may well have been demonic in origin. Let us hope and pray that Charlie Kirk attained the eternal destiny which he was seeking, and let us pray for his wife and children, who have suffered a grievous and inconsolable loss.

Shocker: The Boston Globe opposes discrimination against Christians—In an astonishing lead editorial on September 11th, The Boston Globe condemned the decision of the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families to turn away qualified foster parents because their sincerely held religious beliefs prevented them from affirming the potential gender dysphoria or same sex orientation of children entrusted to their care.

Two Christian couples had filed a lawsuit against DCF after they were excluded from the foster care program because they refused to sign a statement which not only required support for “transgenderism” and an alternative sexual orientation, but would have compelled them to use opposite sex pronouns, facilitate cross-dressing and agree to gender deforming surgical mutilation of their foster children.

The Globe stated that the DCF regulations “clearly lack pragmatism and by limiting the pool of potential foster parents will only result in harm to the vulnerable kids they’re supposed to protect.”

The editorial went on to say that “This is a pluralistic country. People’s beliefs and values differ. DCF’s job should be to accommodate those differences — not try to make them go away.”

This is actually the second major departure from the newspaper’s decades-long hostility to religious freedom rights.

In February of 2024, the Globe, surprisingly, called for the expansion of Boston’s free museum pass program for public school students to include students at private and parochial schools.

Mayor Wu funds hate group—The New Boston Post is reporting that the administration of Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has spent $200,000 in taxpayer monies from the city treasury to fund 45 homosexual groups as part of the city’s Beyond Pride Grant Fund.

Among the recipients was the anti-Catholic hate group, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, which received a $500 award.

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence—whose motto is ‘Go forth and sin some more’—have a long history of mocking and trivializing the Catholic Faith, producing obscene parodies of Catholic art and worship, expropriating Catholic imagery, and profaning Catholic symbols and sacramentals, such as the crucifix.

Their blasphemies and sacrileges include the pornographic “Hunky Jesus and Foxy Mary Contest,” held annually on Easter Sunday, and the “Condom Savior Mass,” where contraceptives are distributed as a substitute for Holy Communion.

These depraved perverts parade in public events presenting a grotesque, lewd and lascivious caricature of Catholic nuns.

Pro-abortion Michelle Wu is a nominal Catholic, who testified before a hostile Republican congressional committee on Ash Wednesday, with her infant child by her side and with ashes on her forehead.

Anti-life fanatic leaves elective politics—The Commonwealth’s first “non-binary” elected official, At-Large Worcester City Councilor Thu Nguyen, whose pronouns are they/them, has declined to run for re-election, and will leave the City Council in January of 2026.

Nguyen has been absent from Council meetings since February, alleging that an unsafe environment has been created by “transphobic” rhetoric from Council colleagues.

First elected in 2021 with the support of Planned Parenthood, Nguyen is best known for sponsoring, in 2022, a proposed city ordinance which would have shut down crisis pregnancy centers in Worcester.

Nguyen’s ordinance would have compelled Clearway Clinic and Problem Pregnancy—both of which were targets of pro-abortion vandalism—to “directly provide or provide referrals for abortions or emergency contraception,” a moral impossibility for the two Christian organizations.

After concerns raised by City Manager Eric Batista, City Solicitor Michael Traynor, and even the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office, about the measure’s constitutionality, the Worcester City Council scuttled the proposal in July of 2023.

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NEWS ANALYSIS

SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2025

Contact: C. J. Doyle
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GOVERNOR TIM WALZ REFUSED TO SUPPORT SECURITY FUNDING FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS

On August 27th, in a premeditated crime, a 23 year old, gender dysphoric man murdered two Catholic school children—ages eight and ten—and attempted to kill scores of their fellow students in a mass casualty shooting in Minneapolis.

In addition to the two fatalities, fifteen other children and three elderly adults were wounded by gunfire.

The assassin, armed with a rifle, a shotgun and a pistol, fired through the stained glass windows of the Church of the Annunciation during the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

The children and their teachers were attending Mass for the opening of the academic year at Annunciation School.

Fatalities could have been much higher. Providentially, the doors of the church had been locked, denying the murderer easy access to his victims.

The perpetrator was Robert (aka Robin) Westman, 23, a graduate of the school, whose mother was a former parish secretary.

Before committing murder and suicide, Westman left an eleven minute video manifesto which included blasphemous messages, occult symbols—such pentagrams, inverted crosses and the number 666—a hand drawn representation of a demon who appears to conversing with Westman, and an image of the Holy Face of Our Savior, with a target on it.

Kash Patel, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, stated “The FBI is investigating this shooting as an act of domestic terrorism and a hate crime targeting Catholics.”

Both the National Catholic Register and the Daily Wire are reporting that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, a former public school teacher, rebuffed repeated requests to include non-public schools in a state funded school security program.

In 2019, during Walz’s first term as Governor, the Minnesota Legislature passed a Safe Schools Supplemental Aid bill, which included a $30 million appropriation for school security.

State funding for school safety was limited to only public school districts and to charter schools. Private and parochial schools were excluded.

In 2022, following a number of school shootings in other states, the Catholic bishops of Minnesota called upon Governor Tim Walz to summon a special session of the Legislature to expand the program to include non-public schools. Walz declined to do so.

In 2023, the Minnesota Catholic Conference wrote to Governor Walz, imploring him to act, and requesting him to support legislation to extend eligibility for safety funding to private and religious schools, which educate 72,000 students in the North Star State.

Despite bi-partisan support for the program extension, and a $17.6 billion budget surplus in the state treasury, Walz, again, declined to support public funding to protect Catholic school students.

He did sign an executive order however, making Minnesota a "trans refuge," where "gender affirming care"—surgical mutilation and puberty blockers—is guaranteed for the "transitioning" of minors.

The Catholic Action League called Walz’s failure to protect Catholic school children "gross negligence, wilful malfeasance and culpable dereliction, rooted in special interest politics and visceral hostility to Catholic education."

Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment:

“Catholics continually underestimate the level of malice in the government school industry towards the very existence of Catholic alternatives to the public education monopoly.

“This animus originates in a toxic mixture of avarice and bigotry—the self interest of the teachers’ unions and the ideological intolerance of Christian hating, secular fundamentalists, like those found in the ACLU.

“In Massachusetts, there have been repeated attempts to evade, repeal or circumscribe a law passed in 1936—when James Michael Curley was Governor—mandating that municipal school bus transportation be made available to both public and non-public school students.

“For the absolutists of church/state separation, and for the vested interest monopolists of the teachers lobby, it is better to endanger the lives and safety of Catholic school children, walking to school in the winter morning twilight, than to expend public dollars for their safe conveyance to school.

“Tim Walz’s callous failure to extend state protections to Annunciation School is inexcusable but unsurprising. He should be held accountable for his role in what might have been a preventable crime.”

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MEMBER ALERT!

TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2025

Contact: C. J. Doyle
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STOP PUBLIC FUNDING OF ABORTION IN MASSACHUSETTS

One of our most dedicated, respected, and experienced pro-life leaders in the Commonwealth is Attorney Tom Harvey, who heads the Massachusetts Alliance to Stop Taxpayer Funded Abortions.

Tom—a valiant and eloquent defender of the unborn—has just announced that he is resuming his fight to overturn Moe v. Hanley, the 1981 Supreme Judicial Court ruling which voided much of the landmark Doyle/Flynn pro-life law.

In that court decision, six unelected, black robed political appointees, cloaked in the sanctity of judicial tenure, declared that a constitution written in 1780 by John and Sam Adams, contained a right to a publicly funded abortion, for women who are indigent.

Tom Harvey has introduced an Initiative Petition for a Constitutional Amendment Regarding the Public Funding of Abortion, which states: “Nothing in this Constitution Requires the Public Funding of Abortion.”

Tom will begin his signature drive in September, to place the measure on the state ballot in 2028. It will be an uphill battle, but it is a life affirming cause, and it deserves your support.

At a time when Governor Maura Healey is boasting of all her efforts to expand child murder in the Commonwealth, it is vitally important that Bay State politicians understand that there are hundreds of thousands of Massachusetts citizens who are prepared to defend the right to life of the innocent unborn.

From Tom Harvey:

You can help to make pro-life progress on the abortion issue in Massachusetts even in this deep blue state.

Unbeknownst to many, ever since a 1981 court decision, Massachusetts taxpayers have been paying for abortions.

The Massachusetts Alliance to Stop Taxpayer Funded Abortions (STFA) plans to take initial steps this fall to end this travesty. And you can assist in this regard.

Even though the word “abortion” is not mentioned in the Massachusetts constitution, the Supreme Judicial Court in 1981 somehow ruled that abortion was a fundamental right under the constitution and that many of them must be funded by the taxpayer.

As a result, the public funding of abortion has continued year after year ever since then. And it will go on ad infinitum unless someone takes action. And that someone is you!

We are paying millions of dollars to have thousands of babies killed in abortions every year in Massachusetts.

As pro-lifers, we simply cannot accept the status quo. We have to take action. We have to stir the pot.

Even if we are unsuccessful in this effort, we still will have made progress. We will have people talking about the abortion issue.

And unless we can get people to start discussing and debating the issue, nothing will ever change.

STFA has started the process. The initiative petition to amend the constitution was recently filed with the Massachusetts attorney general’s office.

The wording is simple: NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION REQUIRES THE PUBLIC FUNDING OF ABORTION.

We are trying to eliminate the public funding of abortion as a constitutional right.

The success of this petition would effectively reverse the illogical 1981 court decision.

And that is essential because, unless that court-created constitutional barrier is removed, the state legislature — even if there were a pro-life majority — could not stop taxpayer funded abortions.

Amending the state constitution is certainly a challenge — but a doable one.

To succeed with this, we do not need a majority of the legislature and we do not need the approval of the governor.

A four step procedure must be followed.

First, this fall, between early September and November 19, collect 74,574 signatures on the petition.

Second, get one quarter of the state legislature, in joint session, to vote to advance the petition.

Third, get the next elected state legislature to do the same.

Fourth, obtain a majority vote when it gets on the ballot in the fall of 2028.

You can help by doing 3 things.

First, pray for the success of this effort. There is no doubt that this is a spiritual battle.

Second, help gather signatures when the time comes this fall. Presently, start drawing up lists of family members, friends and acquaintances, who you believe would be willing to sign.

Third, consider making a monetary contribution ($25.00, $50.00, $100.00, $200.00, $500.00, $1,000.00 or $5,000.00) to finance this effort.

Funds are needed to cover for website development and hosting, printing costs, signs, mailings, and push cards.

Every dollar raised helps us move closer to the 74,000+ certified signatures needed.

Simply stated, the initiative petition will not succeed without substantial financial support.

To donate go here: http://www.stoptaxpayerabortion.org

We are praying — and working — for a victory that protects both life and souls.

Thank you for your consideration in helping STFA in this important endeavor. Let’s make some pro-life progress in Massachusetts!

God Bless,

Tom Harvey
Chairman
MA Alliance to Stop Taxpayer Funded Abortions

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NEWS RELEASE

FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 2025

Contact: C. J. Doyle
(617) 524-6309
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ANOTHER VANDALISM AT HOLY CROSS CATHEDRAL—LEAGUE CALLS FOR HATE CRIME PROBE

For the second time in less than two years, Boston’s Cathedral of the Holy Cross has been the target of vandalism.

In the overnight hours, sometime before 7am on August 14th—the Vigil of the Assumption—a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary on the Cathedral grounds was defaced with graffiti.

The statue, which remains on its pedestal, is located on the Union Park Street side of the Cathedral, near the corner of Washington Street. There was no other reported damage.

City Councilor Edward Flynn, the district city councilor for Boston’s South End, has called for a hate crime investigation of the incident.

The Cathedral has been attacked before.

On October 23, 2023, a career criminal, Michael Patzelt, was videotaped while breaking the arms and attempting to tear the corpus off the cross of a 150 year old crucifix on the Cathedral grounds.

Patzelt, who was subsequently arrested, inflicted an estimated $20,000 of damage on the crucifix.

On September 21, 2016, a rock was hurled through an original, 19th century, stained glass window of the Cathedral, causing $3,000 worth of damages. The perpetrator was never found.

Since the beginning of 2020, there have been, at least, 37 attacks on Catholic churches, institutions and religious iconography in Massachusetts, including an arson fire, last October, in Saint Mary’s Church in Franklin.

The Catholic Action League called the vandalism “the latest in a long series of criminal, anti-Catholic incidents in the Commonwealth, going back more than fifteen years, which have, in the vast majority of cases, gone unsolved and unpunished.”

Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment:

“Councilor Ed Flynn is to be commended for his call for a hate crime investigation of this incident.”

“The Catholic Action League joins him in calling upon the Boston Police, Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden, and Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell, to initiate such a probe and dedicate the resources necessary to identify, locate and prosecute the offender.”

“Once again, unfathomably, the Archdiocese of Boston, instead of expressing outrage and demanding a vigorous response from public authorities, has chosen to minimize this crime, and adopt the passive posture of a spectator in an assault on its own spiritual headquarters.”

“In a statement to the Boston Herald, Terrence Donilon, the Archdiocesan Secretary for Communications and Public Affairs, said the chancery was ‘aware of the vandalism,’ and that it is ‘a police matter,’ and ‘we are praying for whoever is responsible.’

“It is difficult to comprehend how any organization governed by rational actors could respond with such diffidence to a probable hate crime directed against its premier institution.”

“Sadly, these incidents will continue until the Catholic Church in Massachusetts learns to take them seriously.”

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PRESS STATEMENT

THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 2025

Contact: C. J. Doyle
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GOVERNOR MAURA HEALEY SIGNS SHIELD ACT

On August 7th, Bob Katzen, the Publisher of Beacon Hill Roll Call, contacted the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts, seeking a comment from Executive Director C. J. Doyle regarding Governor Maura Healey—surrounded by representatives of the abortion industry—signing into law the so-called “Shield Bill,” S. 2543—An Act Strengthening Health Care Protections in the Commonwealth.

This measure expands an existing 2022 law to conceal the identity of Massachusetts abortionists, abortion activists, doctors and others, who conduct “telehealth abortions,” and who prescribe or ship abortion drugs and puberty blockers to other states where child killing or gender deformity is illegal.

The new law also mandates the performance of so-called “emergency abortions” by every acute care hospital in the Commonwealth.

Healey’s support for the law was hailed by the Planned Parenthood Advocacy Fund, Reproductive Equity Now, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders.

Doyle issued the following statement:

“It comes as no surprise that Governor Healey would, unhesitatingly, endorse the expanded Shield Act.

“Healey has openly credited one of the leading proponents of the measure, Planned Parenthood—whose representatives attended the signing ceremony—with making her career in Massachusetts politics possible. Following her first election to public office, as Attorney General in 2014, Healey said her endorsement by Planned Parenthood was “a game changer for my campaign.”

“In signing this bill into law, Healey is rewarding her donor class in the abortion industry.

“As 22 states and the District of Columbia now have shield laws, concealing the identity, obstructing the extradition, and absolving the liability of abortionists who send Mifepristone to states where its use is illegal, there is growing pressure for federal action to correct this overreach.

“In a July 29th letter to Congressional leaders, the attorneys general of sixteen states urged Congress to explore the possibility of federal legislation to preempt shield laws.

“While the collapse of Steward Health Care marked the final end of what remained of the Catholic hospital system in eastern Massachusetts, Mercy Medical Center, administered by Trinity Health, continues as an acute care facility in Springfield.

“Any attempt to invoke the clause of the Shield Law requiring that Catholic institution to perform so-called emergency abortions as part of “stabilizing care,” would be met by a court challenge on First Amendment free exercise grounds.

Given the current composition of the Supreme Court, that part of the law would likely be struck down as unconstitutional.”

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Doyle’s comments were carried by the Franklin Observer on August 10th and by The Lowell Sun on August 11th.

Jim Havens, host of The Simple Truth on Station of the Cross Catholic Media Network, invited Doyle onto his podcast and radio program on August 11th, to discuss Healey’s signing of the law.

The program is carried locally on WQOM 1060 AM.

Doyle’s previous comments on the legislation were quoted in a story by LifeSiteNews, also on August 11th.

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PRESS STATEMENT

MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 2025

Contact: C. J. Doyle
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MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE PASSES IMMUNITY LAW FOR ABORTION INDUSTRY

On July 31st, the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives passed to enact the so-called “Shield Bill,” S. 2543—An Act Strengthening Health Care Protections in the Commonwealth.

This measure would expand an existing 2022 law to conceal the identity of Massachusetts abortionists, abortion activists, doctors and others, who conduct “telehealth abortions,” and who prescribe or ship abortion drugs and puberty blockers to other states where child killing or gender deformity is illegal.

The bill would also mandate the performance of so-called “emergency abortions” by every acute care hospital in the state.

The act has now been laid upon the desk of Her Excellency, the Governor, Maura Healey, who is expected to sign this radical legislation into law.

On July 31st, Bob Katzen, the Publisher of Beacon Hill Roll Call, contacted the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts, seeking a comment on the passage of the law from League Executive Director C. J. Doyle.

On July 31st, Doyle issued the following statement:

“S.2543 is special interest legislation for the Massachusetts abortion industry. Once it is signed into law by Governor Healey, Planned Parenthood and other abortion businesses will, with complete legal immunity, be empowered to ship the toxic abortion drug Mifepristone into states where its use is prohibited.

“Mifepristone kills unborn children, and in as many as one in ten cases, causes adverse medical complications for the women who use it.

“This measure is a legislative license for Bay State abortionists to violate the laws of other American states, while being shielded from any criminal prosecution, civil liability or professional discipline.

“It is disgraceful, though perhaps not surprising, that neither the Massachusetts Catholic Conference nor the Archdiocese of Boston spoke out against this malign measure, which, among other provisions, will force religious hospitals and pro-life physicians to perform abortions under the rubric of “stabilizing care” for “emergency medical conditions.”

“The complacency of Catholic Church leaders may be explained by that old maxim ‘Follow the money!’

“In July of 2023, the Healey/Driscoll Administration awarded Catholic Charities of Boston an unprecedented grant of one million dollars.

“In March of 2024, the Healey/Driscoll Administration allocated an additional $2.6 million to Catholic Charities of Boston and Springfield for migrant resettlement and job training.

“$3.6 million in public funds, it would seem, can buy quite a lot of silence.”

Doyle’s remarks were published in the August 4th edition of The Lowell Sun, and the Franklin Observer.

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TUESDAY, JULY 22, 2025

Contact: C. J. Doyle
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DEFUNDING OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD NOW BLOCKED UNTIL TRIAL

On July 21st, the same federal judge who, two weeks ago, blocked the Congressionally mandated defunding of Planned Parenthood, has now ruled that the law halting federal monies for the abortion giant cannot be enforced until Planned Parenthood’s challenge to the law goes to trial.

That means the law will likely expire before the case is adjudicated in court.

On July 4th, President Trump signed into law House Resolution 1-The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, referred to as the Reconciliation Act.

The new legislation prohibits federal dollars from being used for Medicaid reimbursements to any health care entity which performs abortions.

Nationwide, Planned Parenthood was responsible for the killing of 402,230 pre-born children in its 2023-2024 fiscal year, accounting for nearly 36% of all U.S. abortions.

In 2024, Planned Parenthood received $792.2 million in taxpayer funding.

On July 7th, U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani, of the District of Massachusetts in Boston, issued a temporary restraining order in Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. v. Kennedy.

Earlier that day, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts and the Planned Parenthood Association of Utah filed a lawsuit—a Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief—against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Planned Parenthood claimed, in its motion for an injunction, that the Reconciliation Act violated its First Amendment rights to free expression and association, denied it the equal protection of law and represented a constitutionally prohibited bill of attainder.

On July 21st, Judge Talwani issued a 36 page Preliminary Injunction, asserting that the plaintiffs were likely to prevail in court, and that the operation of the law would inflict irreparable harm upon them.

Talwani—a President Barack Obama appointee nominated by U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)—enjoined HHS and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services from enforcing the relevant section of the Reconciliation Act until the case was decided at trial.

As the initial ten year ban on Planned Parenthood funding in the Reconciliation Act was reduced to one year by the Senate Parliamentarian, the statute is likely to expire before the case is adjudicated.

The narrowly passed law will now have to be voted upon again in the summer of 2026, in the middle of the mid-term election season.

Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment:

“A low ranking federal judge, with a history of left-wing activism, who was nominated and appointed by the opposition party, has just, effectively, nullified an Act of Congress, signed into law by the President of he United States.

“The great Catholic historian and Member of the British Parliament, Hilaire Belloc, once wrote that democratic governance did not consist of the mere forms and institutions of democracy, but in the actual implementation of the will of the people.

“The will of the people, expressed through their elected representatives, was frustrated and obstructed in Boston yesterday, through an exercise in judicial supremacism, by a partisan political activist, masquerading as a jurist, to the benefit of one of America’s most powerful special interests.

“The Trump Administration must challenge this ruling, bringing it, if necessary, before the U.S. Supreme Court.”

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PRESS STATEMENT

MONDAY, JULY 21, 2025

Contact: C. J. Doyle
(617) 524-6309
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BAY STATE “SHIELD BILL” WILL ENABLE ILLEGAL ABORTIONS IN PRO‑LIFE STATES

On June 26th, the Massachusetts Senate passed—by a vote of 37-3—the so-called “Shield Bill,” S. 2543—An Act Strengthening Health Care Protections in the Commonwealth.

This measure would conceal the identity of Massachusetts abortionists, abortion activists, doctors and others, who conduct “telehealth abortions,” and who prescribe or ship abortion drugs and puberty blockers to other states where child killing or gender deformity is illegal.

The bill would also mandate the performance of so-called “emergency abortions” by every acute care hospital in the state.

On July 16th, the Massachusetts House of Representatives—by a vote of 126-23—passed to be engrossed an amended version of the bill, H. 4271.

The House and the Senate must now agree on a final version of the legislation before it can be enacted and sent to the desk of Governor Maura Healey, who is expected to sign the measure into law.

On July 17th, Bob Katzen, the Publisher of Beacon Hill Roll Call, contacted the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts, seeking a comment on the proposed law from League Executive Director C. J. Doyle.

Doyle issued the following statement:

“House 4271 seeks to expand the provisions of Chapter 12, Section 11 I 1/2 of the Massachusetts General Laws, which defines as ‘abusive litigation’ any attempt by the federal government, or other states or jurisdictions, to hold Massachusetts residents accountable for violating federal law or the laws of those states or jurisdictions.

“For a century prior to Roe, every state in the Union, including Massachusetts, had laws prohibiting or restricting abortion.

“With Dobbs, the fifty year federalization of abortion law came to an end, and the power to regulate abortion devolved back to the states.

“No Massachusetts resident, through the administration of so-called telehealth abortions or through the prescription or shipment of mifepristone to other states, has the right to impede the laws of those states.

“By prohibiting Massachusetts law enforcement personnel from cooperating with federal and out of state authorities, and by authorizing Massachusetts residents and officials to ignore subpoenas, refuse to execute warrants, and reject records requests, this legislation essentially immunizes Bay State residents from the consequences of violating federal law, and breaking the laws of other states.

“It represents a repudiation of both the letter and the spirit of the ‘full faith and credit’ clause of the U.S. Constitution, and is a rejection of the ‘supremacy’ clause of the Constitution.

“This divisive measure, aimed at nullifying out of state laws which Bay State legislators find objectionable, creates a dangerous precedent and establishes a slippery slope.

“Do other states then retaliate by refusing to extradite criminals to Massachusetts? Do states, with differing positions on abortion and gender dysphoria, end up imposing sanctions and boycotts upon one another?

“H.4271 also attempts to do what the Biden Administration attempted but failed to do with the manipulation of the EMLATA law, which was to force Catholic hospitals and pro-life physicians to perform abortions, in violation of their consciences, and contrary to their sincerely held religious beliefs.

“By defining abortion as a ‘stabilizing treatment’ for an emergency medical condition, Catholic doctors and institutions could be penalized with a $10,000 fine for refusing to kill an unborn child.

“Finally, depending on the definition of ‘disaggregated surveillance data,’ this legislation could mean that Massachusetts might join New Hampshire, New Jersey, Maryland and California in not counting the number of abortions performed in the state.

“The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has no business enabling the citizens of other states to evade their state laws, or empowering citizens of Massachusetts to subvert those laws.

“It is state sponsored obstruction of justice, and it ought not to be allowed.”

Doyle’s remarks were quoted in the Franklin Observer on July 20th.

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NEWS ALERT

SATURDAY, JULY 19, 2025

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JOHN-HENRY WESTEN RESTORED AS CEO OF LIFESITENEWS

Ten days after his removal as CEO and Editor-in-Chief of LifeSiteNews, John-Henry Westen has been restored as President and CEO of the online news corporation, by the same Board of Directors which had terminated him.

In a terse statement released late Friday afternoon, the news website announced the following:

“The LifeSiteNews Board of Directors voted today to restore John-Henry Westen to his former position.

“John-Henry Westen has been recognized by the board as the President and CEO of lifesitenews.com Inc. subject to administrative review and investigation.”

No other public information was forthcoming.

Catholic Action League Executive Director C.J. Doyle made the following comments:

“This is likely the only time in the history of corporate governance that a statement restoring a CEO showed even less cordiality than the statement which announced his firing.

“The brevity, timing and language of the announcement all suggest a profound reluctance, or even resentment, on the part of those who issued it.

“It was released at 5:47 EDT on a Friday afternoon, a time best suited to minimize publicity on a story that a corporation or a government agency wishes to bury.

“The use of the word ‘recognized’, rather than the more usual ‘re-appointed’ is curious. It might suggest that the previous vote was somehow improper or legally defective.

“The inclusion of the phrase ‘subject to administrative review and investigation,’ suggests continued hostility towards Westen by the Board of Directors.

“There is also a striking omission. There is no mention of Westen being restored as Editor-in-Chief of LifeSiteNews, a position specifically referenced in his termination announcement.

“Supporters of John-Henry Westen should not get their hopes up. For all we know, this could be a temporary maneuver intended to forestall possible civil litigation.

“It is likely that we will discover, in the next few days, whether this development represents a genuine reconciliation, or is merely a legal tactic by a fumbling corporate board which has mismanaged this affair from the beginning.”

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NEWS RELEASE

THURSDAY, JULY 17, 2025

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KELLY AYOTTE VETOES FIVE PRO‑FAMILY BILLS

On July 15th, the Granite State’s Governor, Kelly Ayotte, vetoed five bills passed by the New Hampshire Legislature which would have safeguarded women and girls, protected children from same-sex pornography, expanded parental rights in education, and raised awareness of the humanity of the unborn.

Ayotte vetoed House Bill 148, which permitted the separation of individuals, based upon biological sex, in lavatories, locker rooms, sporting competitions and detention facilities.

In her veto message, Ayotte claimed that the legislation was “overly broad and impractical to enforce, potentially creating an exclusionary environment for some of our citizens.”

Ayotte also vetoed House Bill 324, which would have prohibited the dissemination of obscene literature in schools and compelled school boards to address complaints by parents regarding materials they found to be harmful, sexually explicit and age inappropriate.

The measure’s definition of obscenity included nudity, sexual intercourse, deviancy, bestiality, masturbation, exibitionism, sadomasochism and sexual battery.

In vetoing the measure, Ayotte said New Hampshire parents already enjoy an “opt-out” right for objectionable materials under state law, and the state should not be “addressing questions of literary value and appropriateness.”

House Bill 446 would have required school boards to mail, in advance, copies of potentially intrusive, non-academic classroom surveys to parents, and would have converted the present opt-out process to a parental opt-in practice.

Ayotte vetoed it, claiming it would lower the participation rate and reliability of surveys needed to combat addiction, substance abuse and mental health problems.

Ayotte also vetoed House Bill 358, which would have permitted parents to claim a religious exemption to the mandatory immunization of their child by simply signing a statement requesting one.

Finally, Ayotte vetoed House Bill 667, which would have required the health curriculum in public schools to include a video presentation—by animation or ultrasound—of the gestational development of a child in the womb.

Ayotte said it was “not appropriate.”

Kelly Ayotte’s vetoes of pro-family legislation were hailed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Education Association, NPR and the Democrat Leader of the New Hampshire House of Representatives.

The New Republic said “Ayotte’s vetoes are a rejection of her party’s attempt to assert cultural control throughout the state...”

Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment:

“Governor Ayotte’s claim that the parents of public school students are somehow empowered by ‘opt-out’ provisions, in the matter of objectionable materials being presented to their children, is disingenuous.

“As pro-family activists have long understood, so-called ‘opt-out’ rights are fraudulent. They are designed to fail.

“Such provisions place the burden on parents, force them to generate paperwork, meet deadlines and jump through procedural hoops, while making them dependent upon timely information from school authorities, which is not always forthcoming.

“The modest, proposed ultrasound requirement for health curricula would not have impaired anyone’s legal right to an abortion. Ayotte’s veto of this benign measure should remind us that America’s abortion regime is not about choice, but about child killing.

“Whether through conviction or expediency, the politics of Kelly Ayotte represent the dumbing down of American conservatism, which is being emptied of its moral, religious and cultural content.

“Conservatism in the United States must never be divorced from natural law and reduced to mere capitalism and jingoism.”

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NEWS UPDATE

THURSDAY, JULY 17, 2025

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TELEGRAM FROM POPE LEO, AND THE STATEMENT BY THE LATIN PATRIARCH, ON THE ATTACK ON HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH

Telegram of the Holy Father, signed by Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin, for the victims of the military attack on the Church of the Holy Family in Gaza, 17/07/2025

HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV WAS DEEPLY SADDENED TO LEARN OF THE LOSS OF LIFE AND INJURY CAUSED BY THE MILITARY ATTACK ON THE HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH IN GAZA, AND HE ASSURES THE PARISH PRIEST, FATHER GABRIELE ROMANELLI, AND THE WHOLE PARISH COMMUNITY OF HIS SPIRITUAL CLOSENESS. IN COMMENDING THE SOULS OF THE DECEASED TO THE LOVING MERCY OF ALMIGHTY GOD, THE HOLY FATHER PRAYS FOR THE CONSOLATION OF THOSE WHO GRIEVE AND FOR THE RECOVERY OF THE INJURED. HIS HOLINESS RENEWS HIS CALL FOR AN IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE, AND HE EXPRESSES HIS PROFOUND HOPE FOR DIALOGUE, RECONCILIATION AND ENDURING PEACE IN THE REGION.

CARDINAL PIETRO PAROLIN, SECRETARY OF STATE

 

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PRESS STATEMENT

MONDAY, JULY 14, 2025

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BILL FILED IN LEGISLATURE TO DEFUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD

On July 10th, Mr. Bob Katzen, Publisher of the Beacon Hill Roll Call, contacted the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts, seeking a comment from C. J. Doyle on a bill filed in the General Court to defund Planned Parenthood.

House Bill 1389–An Act relative to state funding of certain non-profits, was filed by State Representative Joseph D. McKenna (R-Sutton).

Its language is simple and straightforward: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no state funds may be made available to Planned Parenthood Federation of America, or to any of its affiliates.

On July 11th, Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle issued the following statement:

“Following the 2024 election, the Planned Parenthood Advocacy Fund of Massachusetts claimed that Bay State voters sent ‘a supermajority of lawmakers to the State House and Senate that support protecting and expanding abortion access...’

“In the previous state election cycle, in 2022, 30 out of 40 Massachusetts State Senators—75%—and 116 out of 160 Massachusetts State Representatives—72%—were endorsed by Planned Parenthood.

“The public funding of abortion has received majority support in both branches of the Massachusetts Legislature for nearly three decades, since the repeal of the Doyle/Flynn law in 1996.

“Realistically, there is no path forward for Representative McKenna’s proposal.

“Nonetheless, the issue ought to be raised.

“The Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts is the principal perpetrator of abortions in the Commonwealth. According to a July 3rd story in The Boston Globe, it was responsible for 9,462 abortions in the state in 2024.

“In 2023—the last year for which comparative data is available—Planned Parenthood accounted for 34% of all Massachusetts abortions.

“Pro-life citizens of the Bay State understand that abortion is the deliberate destruction of innocent human life.

“These citizens are forced, through the use of their tax dollars, to subsidize procedures which violate their consciences, offend their moral principles and contravene their sincerely held religious beliefs.

“In the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, Thomas Jefferson wrote ‘...to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical...’

“How much more oppressive, sinful and tyrannical is it to coerce an unwilling citizen into being complicit in homicide?

“One possible benefit however, of a public debate on taxpayer support for Planned Parenthood, is that it might finally oblige the leadership of the Catholic Church—after five decades of silence—to confront the fact that a majority of Catholics in the Legislature support a practice which their religion describes as an abominable crime.”

Addendum by C. J. Doyle:

Catholic elected officials who repudiate Catholic teaching about the sanctity of innocent human life from conception to natural death are not limited to the Massachusetts Legislature.

They also comprise a unanimous majority of baptized Catholics in the Massachusetts Congressional delegation, among the state’s Constitutional Officers and on the Boston City Council.

In the 53 years since Roe v. Wade, not a single politician has been excommunicated, not a single politician has been denied Holy Communion, and only one politician, then State Senator Paul Cellucci, was refused permission (by Cardinal Law) to speak at a Catholic institution.

The list of pro-abortion Bay State Catholic politicians who have received appointments, awards, honors and platforms from Catholic institutions include Charlie Flaherty, Maura Healey, Joe Kennedy III, John Kerry, Steve Lynch, Tom Menino, Jim McGovern, Michael Moran, Richard Neal, Tip O’Neill, Tom Reilly, Marty Walsh, Paul White and Michelle Wu.

The Catholic Church in Massachusetts decided, long ago, that good relations with the enemies of the Faith who hold political power, was more important than supporting the faithful Catholics of the pro-life movement.

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NEWS ALERT

TUESDAY, JULY 8, 2025

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JOHN-HENRY WESTEN REMOVED FROM LIFESITENEWS

LifeSiteNews announced today that its Co-Founder, CEO and Editor-in-Chief, John-Henry Westen, has been removed from his position as a consequence of a vote by the organization’s Board of Directors.

The announcement came in the form of an unsigned, fairly standard, boilerplate termination statement about Westen “spending valuable time with his family,” with the Board avowing “We wish him well during his sabbatical...,” while thanking him for his service.

“The board’s decision was made after careful consideration, extensive prayer, and a commitment to best serve our donors, readers, and employees...” the statement said.

There has been no public response, thus far, from John-Henry Westen.

Westen has been Editor-in-Chief of LifeSiteNews since 1997.

Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment:

“John-Henry Westen is not only a courageous and outspoken advocate of the right to life, and a leading voice in the pro-life movement, but is an orthodox Catholic who has promoted the reform of the Church, exposed the scandal of clerical homosexuality, and called for the restoration of the Latin Mass.

“Under Westen’s leadership, LifeSiteNews has been an uncompromising exponent of Christian morality and a fearless champion of the perennial moral teachings, and of the just war teachings, of the Catholic Faith.

“His departure is very troubling, and a serious loss for the pro-life cause and for traditional Catholicism, in both the United States and Canada.

“John-Henry Westen and his family are in our prayers.”

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NEWS RELEASE

TUESDAY, JULY 8, 2025

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OBAMA JUDGE BLOCKS THE DEFUNDING OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD

Late in the afternoon of July 7th, U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani, of the District of Massachusetts in Boston, issued a temporary restraining order in Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. v. Kennedy.

Earlier that day, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts and the Planned Parenthood Association of Utah filed a lawsuit—a Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief—against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

The abortion giant is seeking to block the provision of the One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act that prohibits federal Medicaid reimbursements to healthcare entities which perform abortions.

In 2024, Planned Parenthood received $792.2 million in taxpayer funding.

In granting a 14 day stay, Judge Talwani did not elaborate her reasons, only stating that the plaintiffs had shown “good cause.”

A hearing will be held in the U.S. District Court in Boston on July 21st.

Indira Talwani was nominated as a Judge of the U.S. District Court of the District of Massachusetts, on September 24, 2013, by President Barack Obama, upon the recommendation of U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).

Talwani was confirmed by the United States Senate on May 8, 2014, by a vote of 94-0.

Earlier in her career, Talwani worked as an organizer for the SEIU, the radically left-wing Service Employees International Union. She also worked, briefly, as a canvasser for the progressivist consumer group, Mass Fair Share.

The Catholic Action League called Judge Talwani’s injunction “another brazen, unashamed usurpation, by a low ranking, unelected judge, of the right of the people, through their elected representatives, to govern.”

Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment:

“Article I, Section 1, of the Constitution of the United States makes clear ‘All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States.’

“What the Constitution refers to as ‘inferior courts’ have no authority in the making of laws or in the appropriation of monies.

“Spending bills, such as the one signed into law on July 4th, originate in the House of Representatives. The Senate may concur or amend them, and the President may sign them or veto them.

“The Constitution makes no provision for judicial consent or nullification in such matters.

“The time is overdue for the Executive branch to invoke the arguments made by Thomas Jefferson against judicial supremacism, and apply the principle of non acquiescence to unlawful court orders.”

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NEWS RELEASE

MONDAY, JULY 7, 2025

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MASS PLANNED PARENTHOOD CLAIMS TRUMP BUDGET WILL CRIPPLE IT

The Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts is claiming that President Trump’s new budget reconciliation act will cause the Bay State affiliate of the abortion giant to lose, annually, at least $14 million, in taxpayer monies.

On July 4th, President Trump signed into law House Resolution 1-One Big Beautiful Bill Act, (A Bill To provide for reconciliation pursuant to Title II of House Congressional Resolution 14, as amended by the Senate).

The new legislation prohibits federal dollars from being used for Medicaid reimbursements to any health care entity which performs abortions.

The Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, with killing centers in Boston, Worcester and Springfield, perpetrated 9,462 abortions in 2024, up from the 8,351 reported by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health in 2023.

Planned Parenthood is responsible for more than one third of all Bay State abortions.

Nationwide, Planned Parenthood was responsible for the killing of 402,230 pre-born children in its 2023-2024 fiscal year.

In a story in The Boston Globe on July 3rd, Doctor Luu Ireland, Planned Parenthood’s Chief Medical Officer, said that the reconciliation act would deprive Planned Parenthood in the state of nearly half of its operating budget.

According to the League’s financial statement for FY 2023—the last year for which such data is publicly available—Massachusetts Planned Parenthood received more than $30 million in annual revenue for the period ending on June 30th of that year.

Paradoxically, payments for abortions will not be affected by the federal reconciliation measure, as those reimbursements are provided by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, which operates in New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont, is claiming that the Trump reconciliation act will deprive the abortion agency of $3.5 million in Medicaid reimbursements.

This comes in addition to $1.7 million in Title X funds already frozen by the Trump Administration, for violating the provisions of that title.

Title X of the Public Health Service Act of 1970, states, unequivocally, that ‘None of the funds appropriated under this title shall be used in programs where abortion is a method of family planning.’”

The combined loss of $5.2 million in federal funds would severely impact PPNNE, depriving it of 21% of its annual revenue stream of $24.3 million.

Catholic Action League League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment: “While President Trump, the Congressional leadership, and the Republican rank and file are to be commended for this measure, the original House version of the bill mandated a ten year ban on Medicaid reimbursements to abortion perpetrators.

“The final version, amended by the Senate and signed into law by the President, provides for only a one year ban.

“This means that nervous congressional Republicans will be forced to vote to renew this measure next year, in the middle of the mid-term election season.

“The usual Republican suspects in the Senate, Susan Collins of Maine, and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska—both nominal Catholics—may be the culprits in this setback.

“As for Planned Parenthood, it is a genocidal organization, guilty of crimes against humanity, which ought not to exist in a civilized country.

“Politicians who fund and protect it are the moral equivalent of Nazi war criminals. Catholic politicians who collaborate with it have innocent blood on their hands, and must be separated from the community of the Faithful.”

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HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY

FROM THE CATHOLIC ACTION LEAGUE!

FRIDAY, JULY 4, 2025

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American Catholics have a compelling reason to regard, with affection and gratitude, America’s founding.

Prior to the American War for Independence, the anti-Catholic Penal Laws—officially called the Laws for the Suppression of Popery—governed the treatment of Catholics in Great Britain, Ireland and, with the exception of Francophone Quebec, the British Empire.

That empire included the thirteen colonies of British North America.

Described by Edmund Burke as “a model of vicious perfection,” the Penal Laws were the most comprehensive system of organized oppression before the rise of 20th century totalitarianism.

These laws were not only intended to crush the Catholic Religion and deprive Catholics of their civil and political rights, but to destitute them, dispossess them of their land and destroy their family life.

Their property would be forfeit, their inheritance rights impeded, and they would be prohibited from receiving an education, either at home or abroad.

Primogeniture was set aside. Catholic estates were divided by gavelkind, that is to say, equally among all the sons.

An apostate son who conformed to the King’s religion by law established, could expropriate his father’s estate, reducing him to tenant on his own land.

The Catholic widow of a Protestant husband was in danger of having her children separated from her. No Catholic could serve as the guardian of a minor.

In civic life, Catholics could not vote, practice law or hold any office, civil or military, under the crown. They could not be employed as a teacher or as a schoolmaster, or be called as a juror in a Crown court.

The severity of the Imperial Parliament was imitated and re-enforced by colonial legislatures.

In the Royal Province of Massachusetts Bay, which then included the District of Maine, the law prescribed the death penalty for any Jesuit priest who ventured into its territory.

Among the Thirteen Colonies, only the Proprietary Province of Pennsylvania, founded by the Quaker William Penn, permitted public worship for Catholics.

In a colony founded by Catholics, Maryland Catholics were forced to hear Mass in private chapels, the existence of which depended upon legal sufferance, that is to day, the discretionary non-enforcement of anti-Catholic laws still on the statute books.

With the outbreak of the War for Independence, three centuries of state sanctioned anti-Catholicism in the Anglosphere began to dissolve.

With his famous General Orders of November 5, 1775, George Washington, Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, then encamped in Cambridge, forbade the celebration of Guy Fawke’s Day—known in New England as Pope Night—where the Pope was burned in effigy.

In their conflict with Britain, Americans sought military, diplomatic and financial support from the most powerful state in Europe, the Eldest Daughter of the Church, Catholic France.

In 1778, France entered the war and the young American republic signed its first Treaty of Alliance, with the Most Christian King, Louis XVI.

In 1779, a second Catholic great power, Spain, declared war against Britain, and came to the aid of the United States.

By the end of war, Catholics enjoyed freedom of public worship in all thirteen states.

With the passage of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom in 1786, Catholics possessed full civil rights as citizens and enjoyed legal equality with Protestants in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Virginia.

Then came the Constitutional Convention of 1787.

The last line of Article VI of the U.S. Constitution states: “...no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.”

For American Catholics, this was the 18th century equivalent of Constantine’s Edict of Milan. For the first time in the English speaking world, since the Protestant Revolution of the 16th century, Catholics could now attain full rights of national citizenship, including the right to hold elective office.

It would be more than four decades later before Catholic Emancipation finally came to Great Britain and Ireland in 1829.

With the ratification of the First Amendment in 1791, the "free exercise of religion" was guaranteed to all Americans, including those who practiced the Catholic Faith.

Happy Independence Day!

God Bless America!

God Save The United States!

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

MONDAY, JUNE 28, 2025 — Published by The Boston Globe on July 2nd

Letters to the Editor
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To the Editor:

In his column criticizing Pope Leo’s June 22nd statement on the war in the Middle East, Jeff Jacoby imputes an unreasoning pacifism to the Pope. That is not the case, ‘War does not solve problems,’ declares the pope. He’s wrong. 6/25/2025).

Far from being a categorical condemnation of all wars, the timing and content of the Pope’s remarks allude to specific events, namely the decisions of the U.S. and Israeli governments to launch preemptive attacks upon Iran, predicated upon a perceived threat that was neither imminent nor unavoidable.

In Catholic tradition, a preventive war, to forestall a potential future attack, the timing and circumstances of which are unknown, lacks just cause.

Jacoby omits any mention of the Pope’s reference to the people of Gaza, where Israel’s campaign fails two key Catholic just war standards: the Principle of Discrimination, which mandates the protection of civilians; and the Principle of Proportionality, where the harm inflicted should not outweigh the morally permissible objective which is sought.

Finally, war must be a last resort, after all peaceful means of resolving a dispute are exhausted. As President Trump was still negotiating with the Iranians when Israel attacked, a possible diplomatic solution had not yet been foreclosed.

Sincerely,

C. J. Doyle
Executive Director
Catholic Action League of Massachusetts
P. O. Box 112
Boston, MA 02131
(617) 524-6309
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NEWS RELEASE

THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 2025

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THE BOSTON GLOBE INSULTS CATHOLICS, AGAIN

Jeff Jacoby Rebukes Pope Leo—
Globe Celebrates the ‘Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence’

The bigots of The Boston Globe have made two new attacks, in their protracted war against Catholics, the Catholic Faith and Christian morality.

On June 25th, the Globe published an op-ed column by Jeff Jacoby which rebuked Pope Leo XIV for his June 22nd statement condemning the war in the Middle East.

Jacoby called the Pontiff’s plea for peace “deeply misguided,” which “reflects a peace-at-any-price mindset that appeals more to emotion than experience.” He went on to accuse the Pope of ignoring the suffering of those who live under totalitarian rule.

Jacoby even invoked Our Savior as an advocate for war, writing “Jesus, whom Christians revere as the Prince of Peace, tells his disciples in the Gospel of Luke that if they lack a sword, they should sell their cloak and buy one.”

Just two weeks earlier, on June 11th, the Globe published a long puff piece celebrating the depraved and perverted hate group, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.

The article focused on the blasphemously named and grotesquely costumed male transvestite who identifies as “Sister Lida Christ.” The Globe declared, ludicrously, that he “manifests a message of joy and tolerance.”

The group, which is welcomed by the Unitarian Church, claims that it is working to “promulgate universal joy and expiate stigmatic guilt.”

Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment:

“The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence—whose motto is ‘Go forth and sin some more’—have a long history of mocking and trivializing the Catholic Faith, producing obscene parodies of Catholic art and worship, expropriating Catholic imagery, and profaning Catholic symbols and sacramentals, such as the crucifix.”

“Their blasphemies and sacrileges include the pornographic “Hunky Jesus and Foxy Mary Contest,” held annually on Easter Sunday, and the “Condom Savior Mass,” where contraceptives are distributed as a substitute for Holy Communion.”

“The decision of The Boston Globe to extol a vile organization characterized by a sordid obsession with Catholic ritual and iconography, and which parades in a lewd and lascivious caricature of Catholic nuns, tells us all we know about that newspaper.”

“The Globe has a pervasive, systemic and longstanding corporate culture of institutional contempt towards the beliefs and sensibilities of Catholics.”

“The fact that the paper’s only ‘conservative’ columnist, Jeff Jacoby, seems to share that core value, is further evidence of the anti-Catholicism which defines The Boston Globe.”

“Jacoby is an opportune critic of Catholicism, with a forty year history of maligning Catholics, Catholic societies and Catholic institutions.”

“The objects of his rancor have included Pope Pius XII, Cardinal Jozef Glemp, Pat Buchanan, Christopher Columbus, the Carmelite nuns of Auschwitz, Spain and the Spanish Crown, the Hapsburg monarchy, Ireland and Irish nationalism, the Catholic priesthood in Eastern Europe, and the pro-life Catholic, former President of the Massachusetts Senate, William M. Bulger.”

“Among the revisionist fantasies peddled by Jacoby was the preposterous claim that the real reason the Pilgrim Fathers landed in Plymouth was that they were afraid of the Spanish Inquisition.”

“He once asserted, without evidence, that Pope John XXIII had composed a prayer of atonement for Catholics to recite, begging God’s forgiveness for their crimes against Jews.”

“Jacoby’s reproof of the Pope is hardly surprising. Jacoby, who called for US military intervention in support of Israel on June 18th, is such an extremist on the use of deadly force against the enemies of Israel that he once compared Bibi Netanyahu to Neville Chamberlain.”

“Catholics should always remember that the Publisher of The Boston Globe is John Henry, the owner of the Boston Red Sox. His wife, Linda Henry, is the paper’s Chief Executive Officer.”

“Whenever you buy a ticket to Fenway Park, you are lining the pockets of a man who insults you and denigrates your religion.”

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NEWS UPDATE

MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2025

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STATEMENT BY HIS HOLINESS, POPE LEO XIV ON THE WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Delivered in Saint Peter’s Square, on Sunday, June 22, 2025, following the Noon Angelus, on the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, Corpus Christi

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Alarming news continues to emerge from the Middle East, especially from Iran. Against this tragic backdrop, which includes Israel and Palestine, people’s daily suffering, especially in Gaza and the other territories, where the need for adequate humanitarian aid is becoming increasingly urgent, risks being forgotten.

Today more than ever, humanity cries out and calls for peace. This is a cry that requires responsibility and reason, and it must not be drowned out by the din of weapons or the rhetoric that incites conflict. Every member of the international community has a moral responsibility to stop the tragedy of war before it becomes an irreparable chasm. There are no “distant” conflicts when human dignity is at stake.

War does not solve problems; on the contrary, it amplifies them and inflicts deep wounds on the history of peoples, which take generations to heal. No armed victory can compensate for the pain of mothers, the fear of children, or stolen futures.

May diplomacy silence the weapons! May nations chart their futures with works of peace, not with violence and bloodstained conflicts!

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Our Lady, Queen of Peace, Pray for us!

Our Lady, the Immaculate Virgin, Patroness of America, Pray for us!

Our Lady, Queen of Palestine, Pray for us!

Saint Joseph, Pray for us!

Saint John the Baptist, Pray for us!

Saint Anastasius of Persia, Pray for us!

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NEWS RELEASE

SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 2025

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THE ATTACK ON IRAN DOES NOT MEET CHRISTIAN JUST WAR STANDARDS

President Donald J. Trump, who surprised and rallied Republican primary voters in 2016, by denouncing the invasion of Iraq by George W. Bush, has now embraced the Bush Doctrine of preemptive war.

Today, U.S. B-2 Spirit bombers struck the uranium enrichment facilities of the Islamic Republic of Iran at Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan.

Initial media reports did not specify the type of ordnance used, but defense analysts have suggested that the most likely choice of weapon would be the 30,000 pound GBU-57 MOP—Massive Ordnance Penetrator.

Known as the “Bunker Buster,” it is the heaviest and most powerful non-nuclear bomb in the U.S. arsenal.

Even prior to this attack, the United States was a de facto belligerent in the Iran/Israel War.

Since at least June 14th, U.S. Navy Sixth Fleet Aegis destroyers, and land based U.S. Army missile batteries—like the Patriot and the Terminal High Altitude Air Defense systems—were firing surface to air interceptors, (SAMs) at ballistic missiles headed for Israeli targets.

It now appears that President Trump’s “two weeks to decide” announcement on June 19th, was, like the proposed next round of negotiations before June 13th, a deliberate deception to lure the Iranians into relaxing their alert status.

There has been no word yet on civilian or military casualties.

The Catholic Action League called the attacks “a clear rejection of Christian just war ethics, which places the United States of America in the invidious position of waging an aggressive war against a weaker country, on behalf of the regime change objectives of another regional power.”

Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment:

“There is no precedent in American history of a U.S. President using diplomacy as a ploy to deceive another country prior to launching a surprise military attack.

“This is, precisely, the kind of perfidy resorted to by the Japanese in the days just before the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor.

“In Catholic just war ethics, the decision to wage war must be a last resort. Preemptive strikes, without the evidence of an imminent and unavoidable attack, fail to meet this standard.

“War must be waged for a just cause, the premise for which, in this case, is uncertain.

“The President’s own Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, testified, under oath, before Congress in March, that the assessment of the Intelligence Community was that Iran did not have a nuclear weapons program.

“President Trump’s contention is that a hostile country is developing a weapon which it might use, at some unspecified time in the future, against us or against an ally.

“This is identical to the argument made by the Bush Administration to justify its invasion of Iraq in 2003.

“It is also a formula for international anarchy, where any country can devastate another country and assassinate its leaders and scientists because it perceives that country to be a threat.

“That might be described as the Michael Corleone school of international relations.

“One thing is certain. In the conflict between President Trump’s MAGA base, and his Likudnik major donor class, MAGA lost.”

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MEMBER ALERT

SUNDAY, MAY 18, 2025

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TRADITIONAL NUNS TO GIVE TALK ON INVOKING THE BLESSED MOTHER IN TIME OF CONFLICT

On Saturday, May 24, 2025, Bay State Pro-Life leader Colbe Mazzarella will host a group of orthodox Catholic Sisters, who will present a talk on how to invoke the Blessed Mother in these turbulent times of conflict.

The title of their talk will be “Catholic Battle Joy: When the Going Gets Tough—the Tough Get Mary.”

The Sisters are from a traditional Catholic religious order—The Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary—located in Richmond, New Hampshire.

The speaker will be Sister Marie Gabrielle, M.I.C.M.

Following the inspirational talk, the Sisters will chant the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Latin, according to the method taught in the book, The Liturgical Rosary.

This is a splendid opportunity to learn this powerful form of prayer given by Our Lady to Saint Dominic.

All are invited! The talk will be given at Colbe Mazzarella’s residence at 15 Horace Street in East Boston.

There is ample parking available on the side street.

The talk will begin at 1pm, followed by questions and answers at 2pm.

The Sisters will chant the Rosary at 2:30pm.

Please do not miss this unique opportunity for an edifying, inspiring and instructive experience in traditional Catholic spirituality.

For more information, call or text Colbe Mazzarella at (617) 970-0928.

I look forward to seeing you on Saturday, May 24th.

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NEWS RELEASE

THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2025

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THE ELECTION OF POPE LEO XIV

The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts commented today on the election of Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost as the 266th Successor of Saint Peter as the Bishop of Rome and the Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church.

Cardinal Prevost has assumed the name Leo XIV.

Pope Leo is the first American born Pope, only the second Latin American prelate (after Francis) to become Pope, and the seventh member of the Order of Saint Augustine to ascend to the papacy.

He is one of only three popes in the last two centuries—along with Francis and Gregory XVI—to be a member of the so-called regular clergy, that is to say, to be a member of a religious order.

He is the first former general of a religious order, in centuries, to be elected Pontiff.

Born in Chicago in 1955, Robert Prevost graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Villanova University in 1977, followed by a Master of Divinity from Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, and both a licentiate and doctorate in canon law from the Angelicum in Rome.

Professed as an Augustinian in 1981 and ordained to the priesthood in 1982, Father Prevost joined the Augustinian Mission in Peru. After a brief return to the United States, Prevost spent ten years as a seminary Rector in Trujillo.

In 1999, he became the Augustinian Provincial in Chicago. In 2001, Prevost was elected Prior-General of the Order of Saint Augustine, serving until 2013.

In 2014, Pope Francis appointed him Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Chiclayo, Peru, elevating him to Bishop in 2015. Prevost was the Ordinary of that diocese until 2023, during which time he also served as Vice-President of the Peruvian Bishops Conference.

In January of 2023, Pope Francis made Bishop Prevost a titular archbishop and appointed him to one of the most powerful positions in the Roman Curia—Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops, the official responsible for vetting and recommending candidates for the episcopate.

Eight months later, in September of 2023, he was created a Cardinal.

Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comments:

“The election of Pope Leo means the continuation of some of the heterodox practices of the Francine papacy, though perhaps in a less extreme, divisive, arbitrary and chaotic manner.

“As a prelate, Bishop Prevost supported the innovation by Francis—contrary to Sacred Scripture and Canon Law—whereby the divorced and civilly remarried could receive the Holy Eucharist.

“He was somewhat less supportive of Fiducia Supplicans, which authorized blessings for same sex couples, warning about ‘sympathy for beliefs and practices that contradict the gospel.’

“As a Cardinal in 2023, Prevost opposed female ordination, criticizing the idea of ‘clericalizing women.’

“Cardinal Prevost fully embraced the positions of Pope Francis on promoting a decentralized (and doctrinally diverse) church through so-called Synodality, and in welcoming migrants.

“He has criticized the Trump Administration for the deportation of criminal illegal aliens, and has rebuked Vice-President J. D. Vance for his remarks on ‘ordo amoris.’

“With the election of Pope Leo, the modernist revolution in the Church, effected by Vatican II, and advanced so radically by Pope Francis, will now likely be institutionalized.

“Nonetheless, some of the optics of his election were reassuring. Unlike Francis, Leo wore the traditional vestments, imparted the blessing Urbi et Orbi in Latin, and took the name of an impeccably orthodox Pope.

“Time will tell.”

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NEWS ANALYSIS

TUESDAY, MAY 6, 2025

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WHAT CATHOLICS SHOULD HOPE AND PRAY FOR IN THE ELECTION OF THE POPE

On Wednesday, May 7th, following Holy Mass in the Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican, and the recitation of the Litany of the Saints in the Pauline Chapel of the Apostolic Palace, 133 Cardinal-Electors of the Holy Roman Church will proceed to the Sistine Chapel.

There, an oath will be sworn and a final homily will be preached, before the doors are sealed and the Conclave of 2025 will begin.

This should occur sometime after 5pm Rome time, or 11am Eastern Daylight Time.

What should faithful Catholics hope and pray for in the election of the 266th Successor of Saint Peter as Bishop of Rome and Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church?

Some aspirations for a holy pontificate:

• Let us pray for a Pontiff who will defend Divine and Natural Law; who will not abandon souls by affirming them in their mortal sins; who will end the sacrilegious innovation of blessing illicit and unnatural unions; and who will preach repentance and conversion to those afflicted by the sin of impurity against nature.
• Let us pray for a Pontiff who will uphold the character, integrity and indissolubility of the Sacrament of Matrimony; and who will preserve the perennial discipline of the Church in reserving the reception of the Holy Eucharist to Catholics in a state of sanctifying grace.
• Let us pray for a Pontiff who will restore, not as a permission, but as a universal norm in the Roman Rite, the immemorial Latin Mass, Office and liturgy of the Roman Church; and who will end the unwarranted, uncharitable and unpastoral persecution, denigration and marginalization of traditional Catholics.
• Let us pray for a Pontiff who will preach, teach and defend the sanctity and dignity of innocent human life from conception to natural death, and who will restore the Pontifical Academy For Life to the purposes intended by its founder, Pope Saint John Paul II.
• Let us pray for a Pontiff who will protect, not betray, the suffering Catholics of China, and who will aid, not ignore, the suffering Christians of Armenia.
• Let us pray for a Pontiff who will restore holy bishops who have been deprived, pious religious orders which have been dissolved and orthodox seminaries which have been suppressed.
• Let us pray for a Pontiff who will encourage, not demean and destroy, contemplative orders of women religious.
• Let us pray for a Pontiff who will liberate the priesthood, the episcopate and the Holy See from the scourge of effeminacy and give justice to the victims of same sex predation.
• Let us pray for a Pontiff who will end the scandal of Catholic prelates and institutions giving awards, honors and platforms to the enemies of Human Life, Christian morality and the Catholic Faith.
• Let us pray for a Pontiff who will stand in solidarity with the Christians of the Holy Land in opposing the mass killing and displacement of innocent civilians, the mass destruction of homes and civilian institutions, the kidnapping of civilian hostages, and the deliberate withholding of food and humanitarian aid from civilian populations.
• Let us pray for a Pontiff who will resist the Islamification of Europe, the Protestantization of Latin America and the secularization of the United States and the Anglosphere.
• Le us pray for a Pontiff who will recover Ireland for the Catholic Faith.
• Let us pray for a Pontiff who will follow the instructions of Our Blessed Savior to Peter to “Feed My sheep,” and to “confirm thy brethren.”
• Let us pray for a Pontiff who is a Catholic.

Prayer For The Election of The Sovereign Pontiff

V. I will raise me up a faithful priest,
who shall do according to My Heart, and My Soul:

R. And I will build him a faithful house,
and he shall walk all days before My Anointed.

Let us pray: We most humbly entreat Thee, O Lord, that Thy boundless goodness may grant as bishop to the Most Holy Roman Church one who shall ever be both pleasing to Thee, by his loving zeal in our regard, and, by his beneficent rule, deeply revered by Thy people to the glory of Thy Name. Through our Lord. R. Amen.

From The Mass for the Election of the Roman Pontiff

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ACTION ALERT!

SUNDAY, MAY 4, 2025

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STOP PUB OWNER FROM NAMING BAR “THE HAIL MARY”

On Monday evening, May 5th, the City of Boston Licensing Board will hold a public hearing, via Zoom, on the application for a liquor license by the new owner of the former Telegraph Hill pub at 289 Dorchester Street in South Boston.

In an apparent Doug Flutie football reference, the new owner plans to rename the bar The Hail Mary.

This sacrilegious expropriation of the name of the Blessed Virgin Mary is absolutely inappropriate.

It is profoundly disrespectful to the Mother of God, and is gratuitously offensive to the beliefs and sensibilities of Catholics, and of other Christians.

It demeans and trivializes, for purposes of commercial marketing, one of the most sacred names in the Christian lexicon.

It is a textbook example of cultural misappropriation.

Please contact, immediately, the following public officials who represent South Boston, and urge them to oppose the name change at Monday’s Licensing Board hearing:

State Senator Nick Collins Nick.Collins@masenate.gov 617-722-1150

State Representative David Biele David.Biele@mahouse.gov 617-722-2220

City Councilor Ed Flynn ed.flynn@boston.gov 617-635-3203

You may contact the Boston Licensing Board to register your opposition at licensingboard@boston.gov and at 617-635-4170.

If you wish to participate, via Zoom, in the Licensing Board hearing Monday evening, you may log in, just before 7pm, at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84156408565.

Please help us stop this sacrilege! Express your outrage to the City of Boston!

Thank you.

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PRESS STATEMENT

THURSDAY MAY 1, 2025     Published on May 1st

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HISTORIC CATHOLIC NAMES DISCARDED AT BAY STATE HOSPITALS

On May 1st, reporter Isabel Hart, of the Boston Business Journal, contacted the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts, seeking a comment from C. J. Doyle on the renaming of two of the former Steward Health Care hospitals acquired by the Boston Medical Center.

Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital, founded in 1868, has now become, after 157 years, BMC-Brighton, while Good Samaritan Hospital in Brockton, founded a century later, in 1968, by Richard Cardinal Cushing, is now BMC-South.

Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment:

“While not unexpected, the renaming of Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital in Brighton and Good Samaritan Hospital in Brockton is a sad occasion for Catholics in Greater Boston, which reminds us of the loss of so much of the religious, cultural and institutional patrimony of the Catholic community in Massachusetts.”

“Since the 1960’s, the Archdiocese of Boston has closed four-fifths of its parochial schools, one third of its parishes (and many of those exist only as satellite facilities of so-called collaboratives) and its entire acute care Catholic hospital network.”

“The sale of Caritas Christi, the bankruptcy and dissolution of Steward Health Care, and the end of the Catholic identity of the now former Steward hospitals represent the greatest single loss of institutional infrastructure in the 217 year history of the Diocese of Boston.”

“Hospitals which were founded by Catholics, initially staffed by Catholic religious orders, infused with Catholic values, and administered in accordance with Catholic medical ethics, have now been secularized.”

“According to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health Induced Termination of Pregnancy Report, Boston Medical Center—which has acquired the two hospitals—was responsible for 1144 procured abortions in 2023 (the last year for which statistics are available).”

“Boston Medical Center also performs a whole range of “Gender Affirming” surgeries and sterilizations, does genetic screenings, distributes contraceptives and engages in In Vitro Fertilizations.”

“The two former Catholic hospitals—in whose chapels the Blessed Sacrament was reserved and the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass was offered—will now, presumably, become venues for these procedures.”

“Disturbingly, the leadership of the Archdiocese of Boston has never accepted any responsibility, offered any explanation or provided any meaningful accountability for its role in this appalling loss, which has deprived the Catholics of Boston of access to Catholic health care.”

“It is time that they did.”

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MEMBER ADVISORY

MONDAY, APRIL 28, 2025

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Bill Cotter To Receive Thomas More Award From The Pro-Life Legal Defense Fund

A Catholic hero of the American Right to Life movement, Bill Cotter, President of Operation Rescue: Boston, will receive the prestigious Thomas More Award from the Pro-Life Legal Defense Fund on Saturday, May 10, 2025.

The award will be conferred during the PLLDF Annual Century Brunch, which will be held at the Boston Marriott Newton Hotel, which is located at 2345 Commonwealth Avenue in Newton.

The event will begin with coffee at 12 noon on Saturday the 10th, followed by brunch at 12:30 pm.

As always, attendees will look forward to Attorney Tom Harvey serving as Master of Ceremonies for the event.

Attorney Robert W. Joyce, last year’s honoree, will present the award to Bill Cotter.

Bill Cotter’s sacrificial commitment to the defense of the innocent has spanned more than four decades.

He first became involved in the right to life movement in 1983. Bill founded the Pro-Life Action Network in 1984.

From 1985 to 1986, Bill Cotter served on the Board of Directors of Massachusetts Citizens For Life.

In 1987, he founded and became the first President of Operation Rescue: Boston, a position and a vocation which he has held and pursued for the last thirty-eight years.

In 1989, Bill joined Father Thomas Carleton in establishing the Saint Stanislaus Committee, named after the Polish martyr slain for denouncing the immorality of his king.

The Saint Stanislaus Committee was dedicated to the principle that the Catholic Church ought to excommunicate public officials complicit in the mass murder of the unborn.

In 1995, Bill Cotter became one of the founding Directors of the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts, and has continued to serve on its board for last three decades.

For the past five years, Bill has been a member of the Respect Life Ministry of Our Lady of Hope Parish in Grafton.

In the 1990’s, Bill Cotter was one of the two longest serving prisoners of conscience incarcerated in Massachusetts.

He was imprisoned for 19 months, from 1991 to 1993, for acts of civil disobedience aimed at the rescue of vulnerable children from cruel dismemberment at the hands of the death merchants of the abortion industry.

By participating in the Pro-Life Legal Defense Fund Annual Century Brunch on May 10th, you will both honor the Bay state’s greatest Pro-Life champion and support a Pro-Life organization known for its many years of effective work on behalf of pre-born children and those who seek to save them.

Tickets are $60. You may pay online here, or mail your donation to the Pro-Life Legal Defense Fund, 2 Neptune Road #167, Boston, MA 02128-1733.

For more information, please call Colbe Mazzarella at (617) 970-0928 or email the PLLDF at info@plldf.org.

Please join us in Newton for this historic event and long overdue honor on Saturday, May 10th.

Thank you.

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NEWS RELEASE

EASTER MONDAY, APRIL 21, 2025

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LEAGUE MOURNS DEATH OF POPE FRANCIS

The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today is mourning the death of Pope Francis—Jorge Mario Bergoglio—who died in Rome, this morning at 7:35am (Central European Summer Time). The Pontiff was 88 years old.

Born in Buenos Aires in the Argentine Republic on December 17, 1936, he was the son and grandson of Italian immigrants.

Elected on March 13, 2013, Pope Francis was the 266th successor of Saint Peter as the Bishop of Rome.

Francis was unique in the 2,000 year history of the Catholic Church. He was the first pope from the Western and Southern Hemispheres, the first Latin American pope, the first pope born outside of Europe since the Syrian, Gregory III (d. 741) in the Eighth Century, and the first pope to take the patronal name of the Seraphic Doctor, Saint Francis of Assisi.

Since its foundation, 485 years ago, Francis was the first member of the Society of Jesus to be elected pontiff.

Francis was also, candidly, the first pope in two millennia to be at enmity with the traditional moral teachings and sacramental discipline of the Catholic Faith, and with those orthodox Catholics who adhered to them.

The Catholic Action League urges the Faithful to pray for the repose of the soul of Pope Francis, and to pray that the Holy Spirit may enlighten the minds and enkindle the hearts of the 135 cardinal-electors who will choose his successor.

Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace. Amen. May his soul, and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.

It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they might be loosed from sins. — 2 Maccabees 12:4

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EASTER SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 2025

A BLESSED AND HAPPY EASTER FROM THE CATHOLIC ACTION LEAGUE

At that time, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome, brought spices, that they might go and anoint Jesus. And very early on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb, when the sun had just risen. And they were saying to one another, “Who will roll the stone back from the entrance of the tomb for us?” And looking up they saw that the stone had been rolled back, for it was very large. But on entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a white robe, and they were amazed. He said to them, “Do not be terrified. You are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, Who was crucified. He has risen, He is not here. Behold the place where they laid him. But go tell his disciples and Peter that He goes before you into Galilee; there you shall see Him, as He told you.”

The Holy Gospel of the Mass on Easter Sunday (Mark  16, 1-7)
Laus tibi Christe!

V. Queen of Heaven, rejoice, alleluia.
R. For He whom thou didst deserve to bear, Alleluia.
V. Has risen, as he said, alleluia.
R. Pray for us to God, alleluia.

V. Rejoice and be glad, O Virgin Mary, alleluia.
R. For the Lord has truly risen, alleluia.

Let us pray. O God, who by the resurrection of Thy Only Begotten Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, hast vouchsafed to make glad the whole world, grant, we beseech Thee, that, through the intercession of the Virgin Mary, His Mother, we may attain the joys of eternal life.

Through the same Christ Our Lord. Amen.

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V. Regina Caeli, laetare, alleluia.
R. Quia quem meruisti portare, alleluia.
V. Resurrexit, sicut dixit, alleluia.
R. Ora pro nobis Deum, alleluia.

V. Gaude et laetare, Virgo Maria, alleluia.
R. Quia surrexit Dominus vere, alleluia.

Oremus. Deus, qui per resurrectionem Filii tui, Domini nostri Iesu Christi, mundum laetificare dignatus es: praesta, quaesumus; ut per eius Genetricem Virginem Mariam, perpetuae capiamus gaudia vitae. Per eundem Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.

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MEMBER ADVISORY

SUNDAY, APRIL 13, 2025

Contact: C. J. Doyle
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Esteemed Bay State Pro-Life leader Colbe Mazzarella will hold, once again, her annual Way of the Cross For Life on Good Friday.

The following release is from the Confraternity of the Holy Trinity Through Jesus and Mary:

Pray the Way of the Cross for Life on Good Friday in Boston!

Walk through Boston on Good Friday praying the Stations of the Cross at churches!

Make reparation to God for the sin of abortion, whether we participated in it actively or by our silence, or if we just want to comfort His Sacred Heart.

He walked through the city in reparation. We do, too.

Join us on Good Friday 9am–12 noon.

Way of the Cross for Life

Father Andrew Beauregard, FPC, will lead us from Government Center to the Cathedral.

We stop at 4 churches to make pro-life Stations of the Cross.

Join us on Good Friday morning!

Relive Christ’s Passion! Relieve Christ’s Passion!

CONTACT: Colbe Mazzarella 617-970-0928 or at mazzarellac@gmail.com.

View the Way of the Cross Booklet

Also on Good Friday:

9:00 am — Stations of the Cross at Planned Parenthood

Sponsored by Helpers of God’s Precious Infants.

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NEWS RELEASE

FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2025

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SEAN HANNITY BLAMES PRO-LIFE PRINCIPLES FOR REPUBLICAN LOSS IN WISCONSIN

Fox News host Sean Hannity is blaming the strong pro-life principles of former Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel, for his loss in the Badger State’s Supreme Court race.

On April 2nd, Schimel was defeated by left-wing Circuit Judge Susan Crawford, who, as an attorney, represented Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin.

In remarks on his Fox News nightly program Hannity, on the evening of April 2nd, the host claimed that Schimel’s consistent opposition to abortion, refusing to embrace the Republican position that abortion must be allowed in cases of rape and incest, and for the life of the mother, made him unelectable in a swing state like Wisconsin.

In a Wisconsin attorney general campaign debate in 2014, Schimel said: “I believe that life begins at conception and I am pro-life.”

Unlike the apostate Hannity, Schimel is a practicing Catholic.

An ex-Catholic, neo-con, social libertarian Republican, widely misperceived as a conservative, Hannity has a long history of opposition to Catholic moral teaching on the right to life.

In March of 2007, Hannity invited Father Thomas Euteneur, President of Human Life International, on to his program, Hannity & Colmes, to berate and humiliate the priest, because Euteneuer had criticized Hannity for his public support of birth control.

In March of 2024, Hannity warned Republicans against supporting candidates who embrace “hardline” (principled) positions on abortion. He also said that he was “very happy” to see President Trump endorse human embryo destroying In Vitro Fertilization.

In 2017, Hannity, previously known as a strident opponent of the homosexual lifestyle, told The New York Times that he now takes a libertarian view of same sex “marriage.”

Among the Catholic beliefs rejected by Hannity are Augustinian just war ethics. An early supporter of George Bush’s preemptive invasion of Iraq, Hannity claimed, implausibly, that the reason no weapons of mass destruction were ever found, was because they were moved, surreptitiously, out of the country, just before the invasion.

Hannity apostatized from the Catholic Faith in 2019, citing “institutionalized corruption,” not his longstanding and wide ranging repudiation of Catholic morality.

That same year he divorced his wife of 26 years, and began a relationship with the twice divorced host of Ainsley’s Bible Study on Fox Nation, Ainsley Earhardt. Since 2016, Earhardt has been the co-host of Fox and Friends on Fox News.

They two were married in a non-Catholic ceremony in 2025.

Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment:

“Sean Hannity is actually castigating Brad Schimel for his integrity, moral consistency, fidelity to principle, and conscientious dedication to the teachings of the religion which Hannity abandoned.

“Hannity’s invidious comments should remind us that, Donald Trump’s historic pro-life initiatives notwithstanding, the connection between the right to life movement and the Republican Party remains an abusive relationship with an unfaithful spouse.

“If polls indicate that most Americans support the continued legality of what James Michael Curley called child murder, then we might assign much of the blame to the Republican Party.

“If one of the two major American political parties has spent the last five decades relentlessly promoting abortion and asserting it to be a fundamental right, while the other party has never prioritized the right to life, always finding some other issue to emphasize, then no one should be surprised by the current state of public opinion.

“Hannity’s position is an old one in the Republican playbook.

“For many years, the Massachusetts Republican Party operated a campaign school in the Town of Needham, for candidates in state and county elections.

“Before graduating, each aspiring GOP office holder had to undergo a final interview with the long serving Republican National Committeeman from the Bay State, Ron Kaufman.

“Kaufman’s injunction to graduates was simple and absolute: ‘Never, ever, talk about abortion.’

“No country can become great again, grow its economy, climb out of debt, or defend itself from foreign adversaries, if, like America, it no longer has a reproductive birth rate.

“The two most lethal threats to the survival of the United States are abortion and contraception.”

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NEWS RELEASE

MONDAY, MARCH 31, 2025

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MORAL SANITY IN NEW HAMPSHIRE

There is more good news from the Granite State.

As we reported two weeks ago, both branches of the New Hampshire Legislature passed measures, on March 13th, to expand school choice for parents and students in that state, by widening eligibility for the groundbreaking Education Freedom Accounts program.

Now, the Legislature has advanced bills to safeguard women, protect minors and uphold parental rights. It has also defeated two measures which would imperil innocent life.

On March 27th, the State Senate passed, to be engrossed, SB 268—AN ACT permitting classification of individuals based on biological sex under certain limited circumstances.

This measure allows the segregation by sex of lavatories, locker rooms, athletic events, penal institutions, mental health hospitals, juvenile detention facilities and any treatment center to which a person is committed involuntarily.

The proposed law states that such classification by sex does not constitute unlawful discrimination, but rather rises to the level of a compelling state interest, in order to protect the privacy rights and the physical safety of all.

That same day, the Senate also passed SB 211—AN ACT relative to biological sex in student athletics.

This would require New Hampshire public schools to designate sports as male, female, or co-ed, banning biological males from competing on girls teams. It would apply to public middle and secondary schools (6-12), community colleges and the state university system.

It also mandates separate locker rooms for males and females.

As a measure of the earnestness of the bill’s sponsors, it also contains provisions protecting whistleblowers, and authorizing both injunctive relief for victims and the pursuit of civil remedies against offending institutions.

The Senate then approved SB 96—AN ACT relative to mandatory disclosure by school district employees to parents.

Known as the Honesty and Transparency in Education Act, this right to know bill gives statutory recognition to the right of parents to inquire about their children’s education.

It will compel all educators credentialed by the New Hampshire Department of Education to answer, truthfully and completely, any questions raised by parents “regarding material information relating to their child.”

The New Hampshire Senate also voted down SB 260—AN ACT relative to access to abortion care, which would have prohibited any state restriction on child killing prior to 24 weeks gestation.

Finally, the Senate reaffirmed its support for removing all family income caps on eligibility for Education Freedom Accounts by passing to be engrossed (the penultimate stage before enactment) SB 295-FN—AN ACT expanding the number of students eligible for education freedom accounts.

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The New Hampshire House of Representatives, meanwhile, was busy vindicating parental rights and guarding children from from “transgender” deformities.

The House passed HB 377-FN—AN ACT relative to health care professionals administering hormone treatments and puberty blockers.

Called the Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act, this bill would prohibit the performance of a medical procedure upon or the prescription or issuance of a medication to, a minor (any unmarried or unemancipated person under 18 years of age) that is intended to delay puberty or alter the child’s perception of his or her gender.

Passed by a 30 vote margin (197 to 167), with two Democrats joining the Republican majority, it would make violations of this act by any healthcare provider a Class B Felony, which could result in a seven year term in a state prison.

The House also passed HB 191-FN—AN ACT providing criminal and civil penalties for the transporting of an unemancipated minor in order to obtain a surgical procedure without parental permission.

This bill, if it became law, would punish adults who facilitate a minor in the procuring of an abortion without parental consent. As with the previous measure, violations of this act would be a Class B Felony.

The bill also stipulates that the minor’s consent is not a defense against prosecution.

In another pro-life initiative, a House Finance sub-committee has voted, as part of proposed cuts to the Granite State’s $16 billion budget, to eliminate the New Hampshire Family Planning Program, which distributes, at taxpayer expense, abortifacient contraceptives.

Finally, it appears that a bill legalizing assisted suicide will not go forward in this legislative session, having been tabled in the House, albeit by the narrowest of margins.

What is needed now before any of these measures which have been passed can become law is concurrence (agreement on identical versions in both branches), final votes of enactment, and the signature of Governor Kelly Ayotte.

Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment:

“For generations, many conservatives and Republicans prioritized the capitalist agenda of corporate America, and uncritically endorsed the overseas interventions of neo-cons and their sponsors in the defense industry.

“They offered little or no resistance to the cultural revolution being imposed upon this country by secular elites, the political Left and a lawless judiciary.

“Now, for the first time in our lifetime, a class of counter-revolutionary conservatives has arisen.

“My old master, Massachusetts State Representative Jim Craven, used to say that ‘courage is a comfortable virtue.’

“It would seem that a whole new generation of conservatives is starting to understand that.”

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MEMBER ADVISORY

MONDAY MARCH 24, 2025

Contact: C. J. Doyle
(617) 524-6309
catholicactionleague@gmail.com
www.catholicactionleague.org

OPEN HOUSE AT THE CURLEY MANSION ON MARCH 27TH

There will be an open house at the former home of Boston Mayor, Massachusetts Governor, and U.S. Congressman James Michael Curley, this Thursday, March 27th, from 3 to 7pm.

Curley’s home—the House with the Shamrock Shudders—is located at 350 The Jamaicaway, in the Jamaica Plain District of Boston.

Curley—the legendary “Mayor of the Poor”—was born in 1874 in a cold water flat on Northampton Street in Roxbury.

He lived in The Jamaicaway mansion from 1915 to 1956, when he moved to a small bungalow on nearby Pond Street.

James Michael Curley died two years later, in 1958, at that object of his untiring devotion, Boston City Hospital, the ministrations of which he made free for all the indigent of Boston.

The interior of the home is largely unchanged. The grand staircase, a replica of which was constructed for John Ford’s famous movie—The Last Hurrah—on Curley’s cinematic alter ego, Frank Skeffington, is still intact.

Much of Curley’s library remains there, along with some of the decor, such as the chandelier from the last Austro-Hungarian Embassy in Washington.

Older generations of Irish and Italian Bostonians would recall the long lines that would form, early in the morning, near the side door of the home, as constituents brought their problems—a husband out of work, a child in trouble at school, an ordinary citizen mistreated by some official—to the populist champion of the “Forgotten Man.”

The house, owned by the Trustees of the George Robert White Fund of the City of Boston, is now home to the Emerald Necklace Conservancy, which will conduct the Open House.

Admission to the Open House is free. Some parking is available on the Moraine Street side of the Curley home.

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 2025

SAINT JOSEPH, PRAY FOR US!

March 19th is the Feast of Saint Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Head of the Holy Family, Confessor, and Patron of the Universal Church.

The Gospel of Saint Matthew tells us that Saint Joseph was “a just man.” The New Testament records no words of Saint Joseph. The Foster Father of Our Savior instructs us and edifies us however, by his example—of profound Faith, humility and resignation, and of perfect obedience to the will of God.

In Quamquam Prulies, his 1889 Encyclical On Devotion To Saint Joseph, Pope Leo XIII reminds us that “...Joseph was the spouse of Mary and that he was reputed the Father of Jesus Christ. From these sources have sprung his dignity, his holiness, his glory.”

The Holy Father emphasizes again that “...Joseph shines among all mankind by the most august dignity, since by divine will, he was the guardian of the Son of God and reputed as His father among men.”

According to Pope Leo “Fathers of families find in Joseph the best personification of paternal solicitude and vigilance; spouses a perfect example of love, of peace, and of conjugal fidelity; virgins at the same time find in him the model and protector of virginal integrity.”

Devotion to Saint Joseph bears a special significance to the contemporary struggle to protect the sanctity of innocent human life.

In 1997, Pope Saint John Paul II commended the life of children not yet born to the protection of Saint Joseph.

Just as Saint Joseph, upon the instruction of an angel, carried the Christ Child, Innocence Himself, to Egypt to escape the murderous wrath of Herod, let us invoke the intercession of Saint Joseph, Patron of the Unborn, to deliver the innocent children of today from the modern day successors of Herod who pursue, with fiendish zeal, the Luciferian obseession to destroy human life in the womb.

Saint Joseph is the Patron Saint of Canada. Here in New England, the Virgin Spouse of the Virgin Mother of God is the Patron Saint of the Archdiocese of Hartford and the Diocese of Manchester.

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The Feast of Saint Joseph is, in accordance with the Code of Canon Law, one of ten holydays of obligation in the Universal Church. It is not however, one of the only six days in the United States when attendance at Mass is required under pain of serious sin.

This is not because of any lack of esteem for the role of Saint Joseph in the economy of the Incarnation.

Rather, it relates to particular historical circumstances, specifically, the economic and cultural conditions faced by Catholic immigrants to this country in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. America then was a laissez faire capitalist society where 72 hour work weeks—12 hour days—were common.

Protestant employers moreover, were usually unsympathetic to Catholic religious practices, and would often dock or fire Catholic workers who showed up late for work on holydays.

As a consequence, Catholic workingmen, like this writer’s grandfather, who emigrated from Galway to Boston in 1906, would, on holydays of obligation, have to rise before 4am so they could attend Mass at 5am, thus ensuring that they would arrive at work on time at 6am.

As a concession, taking into account this hardship, the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore decreed in 1884 that there would be only six holydays of obligation in the United States.

 

THE LITANY OF SAINT JOSEPH
Lord, have mercy on us R. Christ, have mercy on us.	Kyrie, eleison R. Christe, eleison.
Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, hear us. R. Christ, graciously hear us.	Kyrie, eleison. Christe, audi nos. R. Christe, exaudi nos.
God the Father of Heaven, R. have mercy on us.	Pater de cælis, Deus, R. miserere nobis.
God the Son, Redeemer of the world, R. have mercy on us.	Fili, Redemptor mundi, Deus, R. miserere nobis.
God, the Holy Ghost, R. have mercy on us.	Spiritus Sancte, Deus, R. miserere nobis.
Holy Trinity, One God, R. have mercy on us.	Sancta Trinitas, unus Deus, R. miserere nobis.
Holy Mary, R. pray for us.	Sancta Maria, R. ora pro nobis.
Saint Joseph, R. pray for us.	Sancte Joseph, R. ora pro nobis.
Illustrious Scion of David, R. pray for us.	Proles David inclita, R. ora pro nobis.
Light of Patriarchs, R. pray for us.	Lumen Patriarcharum, R. ora pro nobis.
Spouse of the Mother of God, R. pray for us.	Dei Genetricis sponse, R. ora pro nobis.
Chaste guardian of the Virgin, R. pray for us.	Custos pudice Virginis, R. ora pro nobis.
Foster-father of the Son of God, R. pray for us.	Filii Dei nutricie, R. ora pro nobis.
Watchful defender of Christ, R. pray for us.	Christi defensor sedule, R. ora pro nobis.
Head of the Holy Family, R. pray for us.	Almæ Familiæ præses, R. ora pro nobis.
Joseph most just, R. pray for us.	Joseph justissime, R. ora pro nobis.
Joseph most chaste, R. pray for us.	Joseph castissime, R. ora pro nobis.
Joseph most prudent, R. pray for us.	Joseph prudentissime, R. ora pro nobis.
Joseph most valiant, R. pray for us.	Joseph fortissime, R. ora pro nobis.
Joseph most obedient, R. pray for us.	Joseph obeodientissime, R. ora pro nobis.
Joseph most faithful, R. pray for us.	Joseph fidelissime, R. ora pro nobis.
Mirror of patience, R. pray for us.	Speculum patientiæ, R. ora pro nobis.
Lover of poverty, R. pray for us.	Amator paupertatis, R. ora pro nobis.
Model of workmen, R. pray for us.	Exemplar opificum, R. ora pro nobis.
Glory of home life, R. pray for us.	Domesticæ vitæ decus, R. ora pro nobis.
Guardian of virgins, R. pray for us.	Custos virginum, R. ora pro nobis.
Pillar of families, R. pray for us.	Familiarum columen, R. ora pro nobis.
Solace of the afflicted, R. pray for us.	Solatium miserorum, R. ora pro nobis.
Hope of the sick, R. pray for us.	Spes ægrotantium, R. ora pro nobis.
Patron of the dying, R. pray for us.	Patrone morientium, R. ora pro nobis.
Terror of demons, R. pray for us.	Terror dæmonum, R. ora pro nobis.
Protector of Holy Church, R. pray for us.	Protector sanctæ Ecclesiæ, R. ora pro nobis.
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, R. spare us, O Lord.	Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, R. parce nobis, Domine.
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, R. graciously hear us, O Lord.	Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, R. exaudi nobis, Domine.
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, R. have mercy on us.	Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, R. miserere nobis.
He made him lord over His house, R. And the ruler of all His possessions.	Constituit eum dominum domus suæ, R. Et principem omnis possessionis suæ.
Let us pray O God, who in Thine ineffable providence didst vouchsafe to choose blessed Joseph to be the spouse of Thy most holy Mother: grant, we beseech Thee, that we may have him for an intercessor in heaven, whom we venerate as our protector on earth. Who livest and reignest world without end. R. Amen.	Oremus Deus, qui ineffabili providentia beatum Joseph sanctissimæ Gentricis tuæ sponsum eligere dignatus es: præsta, quæsumus; ut, quem protectorem veneramur in terris, intercessorem habere mereamur in cælis: Quis vivis et regnas in sæcula sæculorum. R. Amen

THE MEMORARE OF SAINT JOSEPH

Remember, O most chaste spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who implored thy help and sought thine intercession was left unaided. Full of confidence in thy power, I fly unto thee and beg of thee thy protection. Despise not my humble supplications, O foster-father of the Redeemer, but hear and answer me. Amen.

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NEWS RELEASE

MONDAY, MARCH 17, 2025

Contact: John Aidan Byrne
Irish Pro-Life USA
(973) 529-4699
jaidanbyrne@optonline.net

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HAPPY SAINT PATRICK’S DAY FROM THE CATHOLIC ACTION LEAGUE!

MONDAY, MARCH 17, 2025

Contact: C. J. Doyle
(617) 524-6309
catholicactionleague@gmail.com

 

Perhaps nowhere else, in what was once Christendom, can an entire nation and its vast diaspora of descendants trace their Catholic Faith and culture — and their hope of eternal salvation — to the evangelism of a single saint. Our debt of gratitude to Saint Patrick is beyond measure.

Saint Patrick (+461) is the Apostle of Ireland and was the first bishop and archbishop of Armagh. He is also the principal patron saint of the Archdiocese of Boston.

Sent by Pope Saint Celestine I, Patrick, in a single lifetime, transformed the people of Ireland from bondsmen of death dealing Druids to disciples of the Author of Life.

As a consequence, a small island upon whose soil no Roman Legionary ever trod, would help form the character of Christendom by its leadership in the two great civilizational movements of the early Middle Ages—the preservation of the learning of Classical Antiquity, and the evangelization of Europe, known to history as the Conversion of the Barbarians.

The feast of Saint Patrick is not “a municipal festival,” as Judge Hiller B. Zobel erroneously asserted during the Saint Patrick’s Day parade case thirty-one years ago. Nor is it merely a communal celebration of ethnic pride, as one low wattage, nominally Catholic, ex-state senator once tried to tell us.

We commemorate the feast of our patron saint because he brought the Catholic Faith to Ireland, delivering that nation, and us, from the darkness of paganism, and showing us the fountains “that rise in the heart of Our Savior above.”

Only two Catholic organizations in Massachusetts in the last three decades, the Immaculate Heart of Mary School and the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts, have publicly defended the venerable name of our patron saint from sacrilegious exploitation and coarse trivialization by the enemies of Catholicity.

The silence of our bishops, priests, deacons, and religious is a terrible betrayal, which speaks to cowardice, the loss of Faith, the desire for human respect, and the malign influence of effeminacy in the ranks of the Church.

As the contemporary forces of paganism continue their assault against the Christian character of March 17th, and attempt to deform and de-Christianize our feast day, let us never forget that Saint Patrick’s Day is a Catholic holy day in honor of a Catholic Saint.

Sancte Patrice, Ora pro nobis.

O God, You deigned to send Blessed Patrick, Your Confessor and Bishop, to preach Your glory to the Gentiles; grant by his merits and intercession, that those things which You command us to do, we may be enabled to accomplish by Your mercy. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, Who lives and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. Amen.
— Collect of the Feast of Saint Patrick from the Missal and Breviary of Saint Pius V

There are only two writings of Saint Patrick extant. The first is his Confession, while the other is his Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus. The latter bears a prophetic relevance to the modern crisis of abortion.

In it, our patron saint exhorts Catholics to avoid all fraternization with those who participate in the willful murder of the innocent: “Therefore I ask most of all that all the holy and humble of heart should not fawn on such people, nor even share food or drink with them, nor accept their alms, until such time as they make satisfaction to God in severe penance and shedding of tears...” He goes on to warn that “The Most High does not accept the gifts of evildoers.”

When you see our modern priests, prelates, and Catholic schools giving, unlawfully, awards, honors or platforms to politicians who promote the mass killing of the unborn, please remind them of the words of Saint Patrick!

Sadly, the name of our patron saint was misappropriated by partisans of the Culture of Death when they gathered Sunday morning, for the so-called “Saint Patrick’s Day Breakfast” in South Boston. Those enemies of the Cross included Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, Congressman Stephen Lynch, State Senate President Karen Spilka and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu.

All are in favor of child killing, sodomy, the corruption of minors and the homosexualization of the Saint Patrick’s Day Parade. Healey is now leading the disinformation campaign to demonize pro-life Catholics.

What a surfeit of hypocrisy it must require for all of these apostates to participate in the celebration of a Catholic saint!

Once again, we are happy to present the good Sisters of Immaculate Heart of Mary School, who lightheartedly memorialized their departure from the South Boston parade with this melody to the air of “The Leaving of Liverpool” entitled “The Leaving of Boston.”

Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win me, Christ to comfort and restore me.
Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ in quiet, Christ in danger, Christ in hearts of all that love me, Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.
From the Breastplate of St Patrick

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NEWS RELEASE

SUNDAY, MARCH 16, 2025

Contact: C. J. Doyle
(617) 524-6309
catholicactionleague@gmail.com
www.catholicactionleague.org

LEAGUE HAILS VICTORY FOR SCHOOL CHOICE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE

The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today is hailing the work of the New Hampshire Legislature—the General Court—to empower parents and help students by expanding school choice in the Granite State.

On March 13th, the House and the Senate advanced separate bills to widen family eligibility for the state’s groundbreaking, nationally recognized, Education Freedom Accounts program.

Education Freedom Accounts, established in 2021, allow New Hampshire parents, within certain income guidelines, to direct state funded education grants towards the school of their choice. The grants can be used for tuition or related expenses for private schools, religious schools, out of district public schools, or for homeschooling.

As of November, 2024, 5,321 students were enrolled in the EFA program, with an average grant of $5,204 per pupil. This compares, favorably, with the $9,985 per pupil cost at charter schools in New Hampshire, and the $19,400 per pupil cost in the Granite State’s public schools.

On Thursday, the New Hampshire House of Representatives voted, 198 to 180, to approve House Bill 115, which would raise the income eligibility for the program from 350% to 400% of the federal poverty level, and would then abolish income limitations, entirely, for the 2026-2027 school year.

The State Senate approved, by a vote of 16 to 8, Senate Bill 295, which would eliminate the income threshold, but cap the program at 10,000 recipients, with the potential of raising it to 12,250 students.

Both of these measures exceed the more modest proposal of Governor Kelly Ayotte, which would delay implementation, and then, incongruously, only eliminate the income requirement for families who have at least one child in the public schools.

Given the overwhelming sentiment for EFA expansion among Republican majorities in the House and the Senate, and on the Executive Council, Ayotte is expected to sign some version of this legislation.

Both branches will now send the bills to their respective Finance Committees for evaluation.

In a setback for school choice however, Ayotte has announced that she will not reappoint, for a third term, New Hampshire Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut.

Edelblut, who was appointed by Governor Chris Sununu in 2017, is the state’s longest serving Ed Commissioner.

He has been a lightning rod for attacks by teachers’ unions, partisan Democrats and the public school lobby because of his unwavering support for parental choice in education.

Instead of leaving in March, when his current term expires, he will, at the request of Ayotte, remain in office until the end of the school year in June.

The Catholic Action League called the new legislation “a victory for educational opportunity, parental rights and religious freedom.”

Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment:

“Like Christians living in Mohammedan countries, Catholics in the U.S. have endured, for two hundred and fifty years, a form of double taxation.

“While paying, with their own private funds, to give their children a Catholic education, American Catholics have been forced to subsidize public schools which were hostile to our beliefs, scornful of our history and dismissive of our just concerns.

“As these schools transitioned from generically Protestant to aggressively secularist, they have become toxic environments, for both Catholics and Protestants.

“Now, because of Supreme Court decisions in Carson v. Makin and Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue—made possible by three Trump appointments to the High Court in his first term—this historic injustice is finally coming to an end.”

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

MARCH 13, 2025

Letters to the Editor
The Boston Globe
One Exchange Place, Suite 201
Boston, MA 02109-2132
letter@globe.com

To the Editor:

The City of Quincy plans to include statues of the patron saints of firefighters and police officers in its new police headquarters.

In her column criticizing this decision, Yvonne Abraham embraces the extreme position of the American Civil Liberties Union, that there is some sort of absolute prohibition against images with religious significance in public buildings, (Does the separation of Church and State still matter in Quincy? (3/12/2025)).

One need go no farther than Beacon Hill to discover the mural of John Eliot Preaching to the Indians, above the Hall of Flags in the Massachusetts State House.

The third floor of the State House features the bronze Chaplains’ Memorial, commemorating U.S. chaplains in the First World War.

National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol building contains the statues of two saints, one venerable and two missionaries, while the East Pediment of the U.S. Supreme Court building displays the marble frieze of Moses holding the tablets of the Ten Commandments.

The Quincy statues will honor the traditional culture of first responders, a culture that is informed by, but not exclusive to, Catholicism.

Sincerely,

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

Author’s Addendum:

In addition to the works cited above, the imposing 1889 Cambridge Public Library—an impressive example in stone of Richardsonian Romanesque—displays, on the wall of the Old Reading Room, an engraving of the Ten Commandments, with selected Proverbs and quotations from the Epistles of Saint Paul the Apostle.

On a plaque, is an inscription stating the library was “built in gratitude to God, His Son Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost.”

One of the most extensive collections of religious art in a public building in America is contained in the magnificent, 1895 Beaux Arts, McKim Building of the Boston Public Library.

The third floor is adorned with the sumptuous murals of John Singer Sargent, entitled The Triumph of Religion.

These include the Dogma of the Redemption; the Trinity and Crucifix, and the Frieze of Angels.

There are two Marian murals, the Madonna of Sorrows and the Handmaid of the Lord.

Astonishingly—given the time, the place (a Brahmin bastion of Yankeedom) and the artist—there is even a mural entitled the Mysteries of the Rosary.

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NEWS RELEASE

TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 2025

Contact: C. J. Doyle
(617) 524-6309
catholicactionleague@gmail.com
www.catholicactionleague.org

MORE BAY STATE PRO-ABORTS WELCOMED BY THE VATICAN

For the second time in ten months, the Holy See has hosted a delegation of nominally Catholic, pro-abortion public officials from Massachusetts, at a Vatican conference.

On March 4th and 5th, the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, in conjunction with two Argentine organizations, hosted a workshop entitled “Artificial Intelligence, Justice and Democracy.”

Bay State officials welcomed by the Pontifical Academy included U.S. Representatives Stephen F. Lynch and Richard E. Neal, former Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy III, and two Healey Administration cabinet secretaries—Yvonne Hao of Economic Development and Jason Snyder of Technology Services.

As incumbent members of Congress, Lynch and Neal were endorsed by the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, as was Kennedy, when he ran for office. All received 100% ratings from Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America.

All three support legal abortion, oppose restrictions upon abortion, and have voted to fund Planned Parenthood. They also support the deformity of marriage, and the inclusion of so-called gender identity and sexual orientation in civil rights law.

Lynch was a key figure in the homosexual invasion of Boston’s Saint Patrick’s Day Parade.

Prior to last week’s event, in May of 2024, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu spoke at a Vatican conference on climate change, and were admitted to personal audiences with Pope Francis.

The Catholic Action League called the invitations “another demoralizing betrayal of the pro-life cause by a Pontiff who condemns abortion, but embraces those who promote it.”

Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment:

“Three Massachusetts politicians—all of whom have innocent blood on their hands—were invited by the Pope to discuss the ethical implications of artificial intelligence.

“The Pope’s outreach to the killers of the unborn is a grave scandal, which weakens perennial Catholic teaching on the sanctity of innocent life, undermines the pro-life witness of faithful Catholics and other Christians, and advances the Seamless Garment fraud that abortion is just one of many issues, of no overriding moral import.

“It also effectively tells ordinary Catholics that complicity in the slaughter of the unborn is no obstacle to being a respected member of the Catholic Church.

“Moreover, it is also profoundly uncharitable to the offenders themselves. Why should a Catholic elected official repent of his participation in the ‘abominable crime’ of abortion when the Pontiff himself treats him as an honored guest in the Vatican, and passes over, in silence, his treachery and dereliction?

“To those Catholic office holders tempted to abandon their commitment to the right to life, this event is a clear signal that they have nothing to fear from the Catholic Church for infidelity to its teachings.

“It has now been more than four months since Archbishop Richard Henning succeeded to the See of Boston.

“In that time, a Pastor of the Boston Archdiocese gave the invocation at Governor Healey’s State of the Commonwealth Address, the Governor was hailed for speaking with students at Cathedral High School, and now a group of pro-abortion Bay State politicians have been received at the Vatican.

“It would seem that the collaboration with the Culture of Death, which so defined the episcopate of Cardinal Sean O’Malley, is now continuing under Archbishop Richard Henning.”

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NEWS RELEASE

FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 2025

Contact: C. J. Doyle
(617) 524-6309
catholicactionleague@gmail.com
www.catholicactionleague.org

HEALEY AUTHORIZES THE DISTRIBUTION OF FREE BIRTH CONTROL PILLS

On March 6th, the Healey/Driscoll Administration announced that it was authorizing Bay State pharmacists to dispense, over the counter, oral contraceptives, without cost, to Health Safety Net patients, and to recipients of MassHealth.

Under a so-called MassHealth Standing Order, a one year supply of Norgestrel tablets will be provided, free of charge, to any MassHealth or HSN member of reproductive age, who requests the pills.

As of October, 2024, more than two million residents of the Commonwealth were enrolled in MassHealth. No cost estimate was included in the program announcement.

According to Governor Maura Healey, “Our administration is committed to expanding access to reproductive and maternal health care across Massachusetts.”

Norgestrel is a hormonal contraceptive, which means it is an abortifacient. All hormonal contraceptives are not only prophylactic, but abortifacient, in as much as they can not only prevent conception, but can, potentially block implantation after conception, destroying a human life.

In July of 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, under President Joe Biden, waived the requirement for a prescription, from a physician, to obtain Norgestrel, declaring it a “nonprescription oral birth control pill.”

It was the first such nonprescription oral contraceptive ever approved by the federal government.

The Catholic Action League called the Healey Administration’s decision to authorize free birth control for recipients of state subsidized health care “another depraved example of Maura Healey’s demonic obsession with killing as many pre-born children as possible in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.”

Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment:

“Governor Healey is waging a propaganda war against pro-life pregnancy care centers in Massachusetts, using a $1 million appropriation of taxpayer monies to demonize them.

“She had previously vowed, as a candidate for Attorney General, to shut down every crisis pregnancy center in the state.

“When Healey became governor, she ordered the University of Massachusetts to stockpile 15,000 doses of the lethal abortion drug, Mifepristone.

“During her tenure as Attorney General, she supported the radical ROE Act, which eviscerated all remaining restrictions on abortion in the Commonwealth and maximized the ease and convenience of third trimester abortions.

“Now, Healey has decided to dispense, without charge, abortifacient contraceptives to hundreds of thousands of women on state assistance in Massachusetts.

“Maura Healey can, justly, be described as a merciless fanatic when it comes to abortion, population control, and the suppression of pro-life speech.

“Catholic institutions in the Archdiocese of Boston ought to remember that, the next time they consider inviting Healey to speak at one of their fundraisers.”

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PRESS STATEMENT

THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 2025                 Published March 6th

Contact: C. J. Doyle
(617) 524-6309
catholicactionleague@gmail.com
www.catholicactionleague.org

BOSTON’S RADICAL MAYOR, MICHELLE WU, WEARS ASHES WHILE TESTIFYING BEFORE CONGRESS ON SANCTUARY CITY POLICIES

On Ash Wednesday, March 5th, reporter Tom Joyce of the New Boston Post, contacted the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts, seeking a comment from C.J. Doyle on the appearance of Boston’s radically left-wing Mayor, Michelle Wu, before a congressional committee investigating sanctuary cities.

While testifying, Wu wore ashes, in the manner of a practicing Catholic.

To some, this represented a stunning incongruence, given her wide ranging and longstanding rejection of Catholic morality, Christian anthropology, Biblical beliefs and natural law.

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

“Politico identified Michelle Wu as a Catholic when she addressed a climate conference, sponsored by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, in the Vatican, in April of 2024.

“Her own comments on the event, however, omit any reference to her religious faith.

“Wu’s sudden exhibition of Catholicity, on the day she testified before Congress, is unconvincing.

“Wu’s resume contains no mention of any Catholic educational institution.

“As a Boston City Councilor in 2018, Wu was nominated by Emily’s List for the Gabrielle Giffords Rising Star Award.

“When Wu sought election as Mayor of Boston in 2021, she was endorsed by the Planned Parenthood Advocacy Fund of Massachusetts.

“Planned Parenthood cited Wu’s championship of the ROE Act, her support for LGBT friendly sex education in the Boston Public Schools, her promotion of insurance coverage for the ‘transgendered,’ and her proposal for paid leave for abortion, under the euphemism ‘pregnancy loss.’

“Wu welcomed the endorsement, stating ‘Abortion is and will always be critical, life-saving care. I’m honored to have the support of PPAF and look forward to working with them to protect access to reproductive healthcare and connect every person with the care they need.’

“During Wu’s inauguration as Mayor, the invocation was delivered by the Reverend Doctor Arlene Hall, the Pastor of the Deliverance Temple Worship Center in Dorchester. The presence of any Catholic priest or prelate was not evident during the ceremony.

“As Mayor, Michelle Wu initially excluded Catholic school students from the city’s free museum pass program, for which she was criticized by members of the City Council, and by the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts. After public opposition grew, she reversed herself on this issue.

“Prior to her Congressional testimony, Wu sought the support of faith leaders for her sanctuary city policies. Many, perhaps most, Boston religious leaders oppose immigration enforcement.

“A cynical interpretation of Wu’s unexpected public identification with Catholicism might suggest it is about the optics of legitimizing her opposition to the Trump Administration—defending lawlessness as Christian solicitude—while solidifying the support of faith communities in a mayoral election year, where Wu will be facing an opponent, Joshua Kraft, with deep pockets.

“Of course, Wu’s decision to wear ashes on Ash Wednesday could be entirely sincere, coincidental and politically unconnected. The rational mind, however, rebels against such a naive proposition.”

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NEWS RELEASE

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2025

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ANOTHER CATHOLIC INSTITUTION WELCOMES GOVERNOR HEALEY

Another Catholic institution in the Archdiocese of Boston has opened its doors to the Bay State’s militantly pro-abortion chief executive, Governor Maura Healey.

Earlier this month, Healey visited Cathedral High School to celebrate National Girls and Women in Sports Day. Healey was photographed in the Cathedral High gymnasium with the school’s championship girls basketball team, the Panthers.

The President of Cathedral High, Daniel Carmody, publicly thanked Healey for what he described as “an inspiring visit,” with her “message of empowerment.”

Cathedral High is located directly across the street from the residence of the Archbishop of Boston, at the Rectory of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, in the city’s South End.

Established in 1926 by Cardinal William O’Connell, Cathedral High became an independent Catholic school in 2004, governed by a Board of Trustees.

One of the current trustees is the Very Reverend Monsignor Kevin J. O’Leary, the Rector of Holy Cross, and a close advisor to the recently retired Archbishop, Cardinal Sean O’Malley.

Maura Healey is a partnered lesbian and a pro-abortion zealot who has a long history of bitter hostility to the moral and legal claims pro-life movement and to constitutional guarantees of religious liberty.

As both a candidate and an office holder, Healey has espoused extremist positions and supported radical legislation to expand the killing of the unborn. As Attorney General, she filed numerous lawsuits opposing the right to life.

When she first ran for Attorney General in 2014, Healey vowed to shut down crisis pregnancy centers in the Commonwealth.

Following her election, she credited Planned Parenthood for her victory, describing its endorsement as “a game changer for my campaign.”

In her 2014 and 2018 campaigns for Attorney General, and in her 2022 campaign for Governor, Healey was endorsed by the Planned Parenthood Advocacy Fund of Massachusetts.

Her gubernatorial campaign received endorsements from Emily’s List, Reproductive Equity Now and NARAL Pro-Choice America.

In 2022, as Attorney General, Healey issued a Press Release and a Consumer Warning, defaming pro-life pregnancy care centers, accusing them of misleading women.

In 2024, as Governor, Healey, at the behest of her donor class in the abortion industry, launched a $1 million tax funded disinformation campaign against crisis pregnancy centers.

Crafted by the Reproductive Equity Now Foundation—the “trusted partner” of the DPH—and implemented by Healey’s Department of Public Health, the campaign warns pregnant women about the alleged “deceptive and dangerous tactics” and the “potential harm” caused by pro-life centers, and urges women to avoid them.

When not inciting public fear of pregnancy care centers, Healey also ordered the University of Massachusetts system to stockpile 15,000 doses of the lethal abortion drug, Mifepristone.

In 2004, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops issued the directive, 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.

Cathedral High is the fifth Catholic institution to provide a platform for Maura Healey in the last year.

Healey addressed students at Saint John’s Prep in Danvers in April of 2024.

The Archdiocese of Boston welcomed Healey to the Catholic Schools Foundation Gala 24 in April, and welcomed her again at the Catholic Charities Spring Celebration, in May.

Earlier that month, through the offices of Cardinal O’Malley, Healey spoke at a Vatican conference on climate change, sponsored by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts called Healey’s appearance “another betrayal of the pro-life movement, and another abandonment of the innocent unborn, by the compromised, time serving, cultural conformists and nominal Christians who dominate the institutional life of the Catholic Church in Boston.”

Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment:

“It is clear that Daniel Carmody and the leadership of Cathedral High do not care about the killing of over one million innocent children each year in America through surgical and chemical abortion.

“They do not care about Maura Healey’s aggressive promotion of fetal murder on a genocidal scale. They do not care about Healey’s unscrupulous demonization of the faithful Catholics who labor, selflessly, in crisis pregnancy centers.

“What do they care about? One suspects that, for the Catholic quisling class, the object of their veneration is the unholy trinity of social respectability, institutional fundraising and access to political power.

“Professional self interest, not Faith and morals, is their lodestar.

“With the accession of a new Archbishop, Richard Henning, to Boston in October of 2024, there was a hope—now clearly unfounded—that the unlawful and disreputable practice of Catholic entities giving awards, honors and platforms to champions of the Culture of Death would finally end.

“It now seems clear that episcopate of Richard Henning will continue the corrupt practices of his predecessor, Cardinal Sean O’Malley.

“Will faithful Catholics have to wait another generation for the reform of the Church in Boston?”

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NEWS ANALYSIS

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2025

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THE UNITED STATES MUST NEVER BE COMPLICIT IN ETHNIC CLEANSING

Lamentably, President Donald J. Trump, who has enjoyed two weeks of unparalleled success at the beginning of his second term, has now been inveigled into embracing a criminal proposal contrived by the far right wing of Israeli politics.

Today, at a White House press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the President actually stated that the United States would assume ownership and administration of the Gaza Strip, and would relocate, permanently and involuntarily, all 2.1 million Gaza Palestinians into other Arab states.

“The US will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too,” Trump said.

“We’ll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site, level the site, and get rid of the destroyed buildings — level it out and create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area.”

‘The people of the area,’ apparently, do not include native Palestinians. According to Trump, the Palestinians “Just can’t go back. If you go back, it’s going to end up the same way it has for 100 years,” adding “I don’t think people should be going back to Gaza. I heard that Gaza has been very unlucky for them.”

The President also said he would deploy US troops to the territory “if it’s necessary.”

Incredibly, President Trump said, “I do see a long-term ownership position,” referring to the U.S. occupation of Gaza.

The forced displacement of a native civilian population is a grave violation of human rights and a crime against international humanitarian law.

It violates Article VI of the International Military Tribunal Charter of 1945—the authorization for the Nuremberg trials—where it was defined as both a war crime and a crime against humanity.

It is also a breach of Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which stated “Individual or mass forcible transfers...from occupied territory to the territory of the Occupying Power or to that of any other country, occupied or not, are prohibited, regardless of their motive.”

Article 17 of the 1977 Additional Protocols II to the Geneva Convention provides: “Civilians shall not be compelled to leave their own territory for reasons connected with the conflict.”

Article 8 of the Statute of the International Criminal Court, adopted by the United Nations in the Rome Conference of 1998, states: “The deportation or transfer [by the Occupying Power] of all or parts of the population of the occupied territory within or outside [the territory it occupies], constitutes a war crime in international armed conflicts.”

Forced displacement is also a violation of U.S. military regulations. Article 23 of the Lieber Code states: “Private citizens are no longer murdered, enslaved, or carried off to distant parts.”

The Leiber Code comprised the Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field, prepared by Francis Lieber, and promulgated as General Order No. 100, by President Abraham Lincoln, on 24 April, 1863.

Article II of the 1945 Allied Control Council Law Number 10, of which the United States was a signatory, defined a crime against humanity as “deportation … or other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population…”

Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment:

“Unlike France, Italy and the United Kingdom, the United States has never been a colonial power in the Middle East.”

“If this lunatic proposal is ever implemented, which seems unlikely, America, as an occupying power, would now become a direct military participant in the Arab/Israeli conflict, and would be forced to prosecute a counter insurgency war against Palestinian resisters.”

“This would represent a stunning repudiation of Donald Trump’s longstanding opposition to so-called ‘forever wars’ in the Middle East, which Trump rightly condemned as a waste of American blood and treasure.”

“In a June, 2020 address to the graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point, President Trump said, ‘We are ending the era of endless wars,’ adding that it is not the job of American forces ‘to solve ancient conflicts in faraway lands that many people have not even heard of.’”

“Moreover, the good name of the United States of America is in peril. If the U.S. government became a party to the forced displacement of Palestinians, we would join the ranks of Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and Ottoman Turkey as practitioners of ethnic cleansing.”

“That must never be allowed to happen.”

“The Israeli campaign of strategic and tactical bombing in Gaza, along with ground operations, killed 46,000 Palestinians, most of them civilians, and wounded or injured another 109,000. The destruction of housing and infrastructure in the Strip displaced 1.9 million Palestinians, and left 1.8 million facing hunger or starvation.”

“It is now evident, after today’s press conference, that the Israeli Defense Forces campaign in Gaza was never simply about defeating Hamas, but was intended to reduce Gaza to rubble and ruin, making it unlivable, providing the pretext and the circumstance for the removal of the Palestinian population.”

“Donald Trump, being a patriot, admires great American Presidents, like General Andrew Jackson. He should remember another general—a Supreme Commander—who was President.”

“After the Suez Crisis of 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower defended the people of Gaza, and forced the Israelis to withdraw from the Gaza Strip. Having liberated Europe, Ike understood what a war crime was.”

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PRESS STATEMENT

TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 2025 — Published January 28, 2025

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SMEAR CAMPAIGN AGAINST PRO-LIFE PREGNANCY CENTERS EXPOSED AS A FRAUD

The state sponsored smear campaign, against pro-life pregnancy care centers in Massachusetts, has been exposed as a fraud.

On January 24th, reporter Matt Lamb, of LifeSiteNews, contacted the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts, seeking a comment from C.J. Doyle on a new revelation regarding Governor Maura Healey’s disinformation campaign targeting crisis pregnancy centers.

In June of 2024, the Governor’s Office announced a $1 million so-called public education campaign to warn women about the alleged “danger and potential harm” posed by pregnancy care centers, which Healey accused of resorting to “deceptive and dangerous tactics...to stop people from accessing comprehensive reproductive services.”

The websites of the Department of Public Health and the Office of the Attorney General encouraged women who felt victimized by pregnancy care centers to file civil rights complaints against them.

On January 7th, Matt Lamb sent a public records request to the Office of the Attorney General, asking how many complaints have been received about pro-life centers since the June 10, 2024 beginning of the so-called public education campaign.

On January 16th, Assistant Attorney General Jess Instone replied, informing reporter Lamb that the Civil Rights Division had not received a single complaint against crisis pregnancy centers.

Matt Lamb’s story, including quotes from the Catholic Action League, was published today by LifeSiteNews. The full text of Doyle’s remarks are below.

C. J. Doyle, the Executive Director of the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts, made the following comments in response to an inquiry from Mr. Matt Lamb of LifeSiteNews:

“The absence of any formal complaints against crisis pregnancy centers, in the seven months since the beginning of the state sponsored disinformation campaign maligning them, tells us what we already knew—that there was never any evidence of deception or abuse by the selfless, dedicated pro-life volunteers who staff these life affirming, non-profit charitable institutions.

“This propaganda campaign, crafted by the Reproductive Equity Now Foundation—the “trusted partner” of the DPH—and implemented by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, speaks to the cynical hypocrisy, callous dishonesty and anti-life fanaticism of the Healey/Driscoll Administration, along with its absolute subservience to the abortion lobby.

“Governor Maura Healey should retract her defamatory comments about pregnancy care centers, stop the misuse of taxpayer dollars in demonizing them, and apologize for slandering innocent citizens who are only trying to help vulnerable women with unexpected pregnancies.

“The origins of this Goebbelsian campaign can be traced to a 2015 propaganda document by NARAL. It was revived by abortion proponents after Dobbs, as a punitive measure to retaliate against the pro-life movement.

“Maura Healey is a partnered lesbian and a pro-abortion zealot who has a long history of bitter hostility to the moral and legal claims of the pro-life movement and to constitutional guarantees of religious liberty.

“As both a candidate and an office holder, Healey has espoused extremist positions and supported radical legislation to expand the killing of the unborn. As Attorney General, she filed numerous lawsuits opposing the right to life.

“When she first ran for Attorney General in 2014, Healey vowed to shut down crisis pregnancy centers in the state.

“Following her election, she credited Planned Parenthood for her victory, describing its endorsement as “a game changer for my campaign.”

“In her 2014 and 2018 campaigns for Attorney General, and in her 2022 campaign for Governor, Healey was endorsed by the Planned Parenthood Advocacy Fund of Massachusetts.

“Her gubernatorial campaign received endorsements from Emily’s List, Reproductive Equity Now and NARAL Pro-Choice America.

“As Governor, Healey not only attempted to incite public contempt for pregnancy care centers, but ordered the University of Massachusetts system to stockpile 15,000 doses of Mifepristone.

“This disinformation campaign also raises serious ethical questions regarding Governor Healey’s conduct as an elected official.

“Chapter 268A Section 4 of the Massachusetts General Laws prohibits a public officer from acting as an agent for someone other than the Commonwealth. In this matter, it would seem that Maura Healey is acting as an agent for her donor class in the abortion industry.”

Finally, Matt Lamb is to be commended for an enterprising piece of journalism, asking an obvious question, which no one in the mainstream media ever bothered to ask.

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NEWS RELEASE

FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 2025

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LEAGUE APPLAUDS TRUMP PARDON OF PRO-LIFE PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE

The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today is applauding the pardons, granted yesterday, to 23 pro-life rescuers, by President Donald J. Trump.

On two occasions in the last sixteen months, Donald Trump stated that he would invoke executive clemency in the matter of federally imprisoned pro-life activists, whom he said were “unjustly persecuted by the Biden administration.”

That promise was fulfilled on January 23rd. President Trump said it was “a great honor” to sign these pardons.

The 23 pro-life rescuers, many of them elderly, and some in poor health, were convicted in federal court for non-violent acts of civil disobedience, while trying to prevent the killing of innocent children, at abortion facilities.

They were the target of an ideologically driven, unequal application of the 1994 Freedom of Access To Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) by the Biden Justice Department.

Although the legislation ostensibly protects houses of worship and crisis pregnancy centers, only two of 25 FACE prosecutions brought by the Biden DOJ involved pro-abortion extremists who attacked pregnancy care centers.

Despite an epidemic of more than 400 incidents of arson and vandalism directed against churches, parish facilities and religious iconography since the leak of the Dobbs decision in 2022, there has never been a FACE prosecution for an attack upon a religious institution.

The pro-life rescuers were not only the victims of selective prosecution, but received excessive punishments.

The author and sponsor of the FACE Act, the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy, stated that the measure did not envision first offences as felonies.

Unable to use only the FACE law to impose multi-year prison sentences on peaceful protestors, the Biden DOJ resorted to the Conspiracy Against Rights statute—the so-called Ku Klux Klan Act—as a kind of prosecutorial accelerant to ensure that these pro-life rescuers would be incarcerated in federal prisons.

Two of those pardoned, Jean Marshall, 75, and Paulette Harlow, 76, are Massachusetts residents and volunteers with Operation Rescue Boston. Paulette, who suffers from multiple health problems, was due to begin her term in prison on February 1st.

Jean Marshall is being released from the Federal Correctional Institution, Danbury.

Responding to the joyous news, Bill Cotter, the President of Operation Rescue Boston, said “We are overjoyed at the pardoning of these pro-life rescuers, and are especially glad that Jean and Paulette are free once more. Thank you, God; and thank you, President Trump.”

The pardons came just two days after President Trump withdrew the United States from the World Health Organization, the United Nations agency which promotes abortion and contraception throughout the globe.

The Catholic Action League called the pardons “an act of justice and of mercy, for which President Trump ought to be thanked and commended.”

Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment:

“For Catholics, a Christian conception of a just government is one that protects the poor from the rich and defends the weak from the strong. Today, President Trump imparted relief to poor, frail, weak and unselfish prisoners of conscience, putting an end to their suffering, and delivering them from the power and the vengeance of a partisan and weaponized Department of Justice.

“Morally, they committed no crime. As Saint Augustine, and the Angelic Doctor, Saint Thomas Aquinas, taught, ‘An unjust law is no law.’

“The rescuers only sought to save, peacefully, the lives of the innocent unborn, who Saint Teresa of Calcutta described, prophetically, as the ‘poorest of the poor.’

“May God bless President Donald Trump, and may the Holy Ghost inspire him to seek justice, always, for the innocent pre-born!”

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NEWS RELEASE

MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 2025

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LEAGUE HAILS TRUMP WITHDRAWAL FROM PRO-ABORTION WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

At 8:25 this evening, less than nine hours after his inauguration, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order withdrawing the United States from the abortion promoting United Nations agency, the World Health Organization.

WHO lists abortion among “essential healthcare services,” characterizes laws which prohibit or restrict abortion as discriminatory human rights violations, and calls for the expansion of abortion through changes in national laws. The agency also promotes abortifacient contraception.

In July of 2020, in his first Administration, Donald Trump, announced the U.S. withdrawal from WHO, only to have his decision reversed by the Biden Administration in January of 2021.

Under Joe Biden, the United States became the largest single funding source for WHO, contributing $816 million to the organization in FY 2022.

The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts hailed President Trump’s Executive Order, calling it “a victory for the right to life, a defeat for the transnational abortion industry, and a vindication of the conscience rights of pro-life American taxpayers, who have been forced, against their sincerely held moral and religious beliefs, to subsidize the UN promoted expansion of abortion in the Third World.”

Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment:

“President Trump’s day one Executive Order sends a reassuring message to supporters of the right to life, who have been justly apprehensive about the direction of a second Trump Administration, since the removal of explicit pro-life language from the Republican National Platform last July, and the President’s assertion, in April of 2024, that abortion is now a state issue.

“In his first Administration, President Trump also withdrew from and defunded two other UN agencies which promoted abortion—the United Nations Fund For Population Activities, and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

“The Catholic Action League is calling upon President Trump to restore the pro-life policies of his first term, and complete the emancipation of American taxpayers from fiscal vassalage to the UN’s population control apparat, by promptly leaving both UNFPA and UNESCO.”

In other late breaking news, it has been announced that President Trump will pardon a pro-life prisoner of conscience, Bevelyn Williams, who was prosecuted for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, and sentenced to three years in federal prison for a peaceful act of civil obedience at an abortion facility.

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NEWS ANALYSIS

SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 2025

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JIMMY CARTER INSULTED A SAINT

The 39th President of the United States, James Earl “Jimmy” Carter was buried on Thursday, January 9th.

He was the only President from Georgia, the only Commander-in-Chief to have graduated from the United States Naval Academy, and the only President to have reached his centennial. Born in 1924, Carter was 100 years old at the time of his death on December 29th.

A former Southern Baptist, who left that denomination because of its refusal to consent to the deformity of marriage, Carter’s funeral was held in the American equivalent of Westminster Abbey—The Episcopal Church’s Washington National Cathedral.

The media narrative on Carter—this country’s version of an official court history—was that, despite a failed Presidency, Carter was a good man, an honest public servant and a statesman with a reputation as a peacemaker.

In this narrative, Carter was recognized, in his private life, as a loving father and a faithful husband, and as a man of sterling character and unimpeachable integrity, whose post-Presidency was distinguished by world wide humanitarian endeavors and conflict resolution diplomacy.

Omitted from this narrative however, was the fact that Carter was also an anti-Catholic bigot.

In October of 1979, when Pope Saint John Paul II visited the United States, Carter was the first American President to invite a Sovereign Pontiff to the White House. Beaming his famous smile, the President, with Mrs. Carter at his side, warmly greeted the Pope at the North Portico of the Executive Mansion.

At a Rose Garden press conference, Carter hailed the Pope as a “champion of dignity and decency” and a “pilgrim for peace.”

In hand written Presidential notes later deposited in the National Archives, Carter recorded an hour long, ostensibly cordial and wide ranging talk with John Paul on a host of international issues.

More than three decades later however—seven years after the death of Saint John Paul, and a year after his beatification—Carter changed his story.

In 2012, he claimed that he confronted the Pope about the exclusion of women from the Catholic clergy, asserting that an all male priesthood contributed to the “perpetuation of the subservience of women.” He then claimed that the Pope became angry when Carter challenged him about so-called liberation theology.

Carter went on to deride the Pope as “a fundamentalist.”

He would then cite the Catholic Church as the prime example and principal offender of how “a woman is treated as an inferior person in the great religions,” alleging this normalized abuse and discrimination against women in secular society.

There is nothing in either the documentary record or the testamentary evidence of those involved in the state visit to confirm this previously unknown assertion by Carter.

Carter not only insulted the Vicar of Christ, but blasphemed Our Blessed Savior. In 2018, Carter suggested that the sinless Second Person of the Holy Trinity would affirm that sodomistic doppelganger of the Sacrament of Matrimony known as “gay marriage.”

Discerning Catholics might have recognized Carter’s animus against the Faith from his notorious 1976 interview with the pornographic magazine Playboy.

When asked about reassuring those who might be uneasy about his religious beliefs, Carter responded, revealingly and gratuitously:

The reason the Baptist Church was formed in this country was because of our belief in absolute and total separation of church and state. These basic tenets make us almost unique. We don’t believe in any hierarchy in church. We don’t have bishops. Any officers chosen by the church are defined as servants, not bosses.

It is reasonable to surmise that his reference to hierarchy did not pertain to Anglicans or the Eastern Orthodox.

Carter was also something of a fraud when it came to abortion.

Few people remember today that Carter attempted to run to the right of President Gerald Ford in 1976 on the pro-life issue.

Ford was a culturally conforming Episcopalian and a reliably establishment Republican who supported population control. His wife, Betty Ford, was an outspoken advocate of legal abortion.

Ford, America’s first unelected President, suffered the misfortune of being nominated for a full term the same year that conservative, pro-life Republicans, led by former California Governor Ronald Reagan, captured the Republican National Convention and included support for the Human Life Amendment in the Republican Platform.

Ford, uncomfortable with the issue, tried to sound pro-life by by declaiming that Roe v. Wade “went too far.”

Carter, sensing weakness, announced that if elected, he would pursue a “national statute to restrict abortion.” The details remained vague, and he never explained how an Act of Congress would comport with an adverse Supreme Court decision.

Once elected, the national statute was quietly forgotten, and Carter governed as a functionally pro-abortion Democrat.

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NEWS ANALYSIS

MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 2025
The Epiphany of Our Lord

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JOHNSON DODGES ABORTION IN ACCEPTANCE SPEECH

DEMOCRATS TALK ABOUT ABORTION —
REPUBLICANS TALK EVERYTHING EXCEPT ABORTION

On Friday, January 3rd—the swearing in day of the 119th Congress—five term Congressman Mike Johnson (R-LA) was re-elected as the 56th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.

With one vacancy in the 435 seat chamber, Johnson won with the narrowest of margins, receiving 218 votes against Congressman Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), who with 215 votes, will continue to serve as the Democratic Minority Floor Leader and Leader of the House Democratic Caucus.

In a nineteen minute acceptance speech delivered from the podium of the House, Johnson gave a broad ranging talk addressing numerous issues on the Republican national agenda.

Johnson discussed securing our borders, strengthening national defense, controlling inflation, protecting jobs, combatting overregulation, extending tax cuts, attracting foreign investment, restoring energy dominance, defending parental rights, eliminating the Green New Deal, ending electric vehicle mandates, dismantling the Administrative State, reducing the size of government, putting America First, and achieving Peace through Strength.

Nowhere in this lengthy laundry list of partisan policy objectives did Johnson bother to mention the most pressing and consequential moral issue confronting America today—the deliberate killing of over one million pre-born children every year through legal abortion.

Johnson even enunciated a list of “Seven Core Principles of Conservatism,” which, in a shocking omission, failed to include upholding the sanctity of innocent human life from conception to natural death.

Democrat Hakeem Jeffries, in contrast, in his remarks, spoke directly and forcefully in favor of so-called reproductive rights.

It should be obvious by now that the deletion of 27 pro-life and pro-family planks from the Republican National Platform in 2024 was more than just a temporary and expedient tactical downplaying, for electoral purposes, of Republican opposition to abortion.

It is now clear that it was the beginning of a fundamental shift in direction, by national Republicans, on the issue of abortion. Since that time, President Trump has asserted that abortion is now a state issue, that the Republican Party will no longer support the Human Life Amendment, and that he would veto any federal ban on abortion.

He went on to describe state heartbeat laws and six week abortion bans as “extreme,” and promised that the Food and Drug Administration, under his Presidency, would keep the abortion drug Mifepristone legal.

Mifepristone now accounts for 63% percent of all U.S. abortions.

As Johnson’s remarks indicate, the Republican Party, it would seem, is moving on from abortion, as it has, already, moved on from the defense of traditional marriage and natural law.

Much of the blame for this disastrous defeat for the right to life can be apportioned to the leadership of mainstream national pro-life organizations, such as the National Right To Life Committee, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, the Family Research Council, Students For Life, Priests For Life and Americans United For Life.

Instead of standing up for their professed principles, the leaders of these groups made the political calculation that the Trump candidacy had to be supported at all costs, even if meant lying to their own members, as Brian Burch of Catholic Vote did, when he claimed that the new Republican platform (which supports contraception and IVF) is “unmistakably pro-life.”

Meanwhile, Fox News Contributor Tammy Bruce, the lesbian former Chairman of the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Organization of Women, who once boasted that she “fought Operation Rescue in the streets,” will be appointed spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State in the second Trump Administration.

President-Elect Trump, not Secretary of State designate Marco Rubio, made the announcement Friday.

Pro-life Catholics must learn two lessons from this catastrophe.

First, the leaders of national right to life groups—compromised political actors masquerading as disinterested moral crusaders—should neither be trusted nor supported ever again.

Secondly, when it comes to political leaders, we should heed the wisdom of the inspired Word of God in the 145th Psalm: Put not your trust in princes: In the children of men, in whom there is no salvation.