Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Talk about Touching (and Money) in the Archdiocese of Boston

Another priest who signed a letter asking Cardinal Law to resign over his handling of priests who abused children was in the news today.

A Walpole priest was charged yesterday with sexually assaulting a man he’d followed into the woods at a Canton rest stop, police said.

The Rev. Emile R. “Mike” Boutin, 46, a youth pastor at Blessed Sacrament in Walpole, pleaded not guilty to indecent assault and battery at his arraignment in Stoughton District Court, said Norfolk District Attorney spokesman David Traub.


Naturally, Fr. Boutin was "fully in compliance with" Cardinal O'Malley's "sexual abuse protection program": sitting children as young as kindergarten down to talk about what "the right names are" of the parts of their body inside of their underpants, accompanied by stories about rape, incest and sexual violence.

Meanwhile, back at the clericalism dude ranch...


Here's the review on cruisinggays.com of the Canton Park and Ride

The men I've met have ranged from incredibly handsome, naked and persistent, to cute and shy. All perform. Occasionally there's hot group action with up to ten men at once, but usually threesomes...

The young man was 21. Though you would hope a 21 year old is worldly about what happens in the wooded areas near the expressway, I'm sure there are many young men who would learn the hard way. Quite frankly, I'm going to remind my own 20 year old because with all the stranger danger you teach, I can't really remember specifically mentioning rest stop activities.

Ironically, a few months back, Fr. Boutin wrote about the sexual abuse crisis and displayed my favorite top two disturbing warning signs - claiming the Church could use some sexual updating with psychosexual mumbojumbo and coming right out and saying priests shouldn't be celibate. If they're saying it, one should have a pretty good idea that he's tried and failed - and questions ought to be asked about "who" or "how many" are on the other side of those failures.

Should priests be celibate today? No....

This crisis is instead about an unwillingness on the part of the Church to deal honestly with the psycho-sexual health of those who are called to lead in the Church -- both the priests and the bishops, both gay and straight -- and to listen to professionals who are not in the Church, but who know much more about these issues than the bishops and rectors of seminaries do.

I'm sad to also report that local bloggers received an email circulated yesterday from an anonymous source.

Rev. Keith LeBlanc resigned as pastor of St. John Parish in Haverhill after he was caught stealing significant amounts of money from his parish.

To care for St. John's in Haverhill - a parish that has been victimized by a proven thief priest - the Archdiocese sends in Rev. Paul Coughlin.

See: http://www.eagletribune.com/latestnews/x1703941481/St-John-the-Baptist-Church-welcomes-interim-priest

In March 2006, the same Rev. Paul Coughlin resigned as pastor of St. Margaret Mary Parish in Westwood after . . . you guessed it, he was caught stealing significant amounts of money from his parish.

See: http://www.wickedlocal.com/westwood/local_news/x38853726

What organization in the world other than the Archdiocese of Boston would do something like this? Of the hundreds of priests in the Archdiocese, how could they possibly choose a proven thief priest to replace a proven thief priest? What are the reactions of the people at St. John's in Haverhill when they find out about this? How could any intelligent parishioner contribute one penny to the parish when financial oversight that was criminally violated by one proven thief priest is handed over to another proven thief priest?

Certainly, I would not want to see a priest caught with his hands in the cookie jar permanently removed from ministry. As I have mentioned before, Walter Cuenin's ministry didn't skip a beat when he was caught stealing.

But going forward, wouldn't you assign a priest who fell to the temptation of stealing to one of the numerous ministries that wouldn't put him back on the path of that same temptation?

Of all circumstances, after removing a priest for questions about the finances, you assign another priest with a past history of being removed for stealing as the interim replacement?

Isn't that like assigning a priest removed for kicking the neighborhood dogs to be the chaplain for the Animal Rescue League?


Aren't you setting him up for wrath of parishioners when they get another shocking reminder about how poor the judgment is in the leadership of the Archdiocese of Boston?

If they were going out of their way to sabotage a priest's vocation, they wouldn't be able to think of a better plan.

They are are more irresponsible and inept than any administration in the history of the Archdiocese of Boston.

Something stinks about this Caritas deal

I have a few things to add to CJ Doyle (press release below) and the bloggers at BostonCatholicInsider coverage later. For the moment, please stop in at BostonCatholicInsider and take a good whiff of the sulfur - and check out CJ's press release.


ACTION ALERT!!

MONDAY, JUNE 28, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: C. J. DOYLE
(781) 251-9739

KEEP CARITAS CATHOLIC!

Boston's Catholic health care system, which dates back to 1863, is about to be sold, converted to a for-profit entity, and rapidly secularized. Caritas Christi Health Care --- the network of six Catholic hospitals affiliated with the Archdiocese of Boston --- is being acquired by the Steward Health Care System, a subsidiary of Cerberus Capital Management.

Despite assurances by Caritas and the Archdiocese that the hospitals' Catholic identity will be retained for at least three years, the Notice of Transaction filed by Caritas with the Public Charities Division of the Attorney-General's Office on May 5th, 2010 clearly indicates that the new owners may unilaterally terminate the Catholic identity of the hospitals at any time for virtually any reason provided they are willing to pay just three percent above the original purchase price, which is an additional twenty-five million dollars.

If the Steward Health Care System finds compliance with Catholic medical ethics to be "unlawful or materially burdensome," which is broadly defined as anything which would "jeopardize the welfare of its patients, employees, or the communities in which it operates," the determination of which will be in "the sole discretion of Steward," the system's Catholic identity could be immediately abandoned upon payment of the termination fee.

This is an impending disaster for the Church, the Catholic community, the Pro-Life movement and Catholics in the medical and nursing professions!

This means that such iconic Catholic institutions as Carney Hospital, and St. Elizabeth's Medical Center may become participants in abortion, contraception, sterilization and passive euthanasia. Catholic and other pro-life doctors, nurses and administrators will lose their conscience protections. Charitable care for the poor will suffer, and Catholic principles of social justice in employee relations, such as the Catholic principle of the just wage, will be replaced by the capitalist law of supply and demand.

There will be a public hearing on the future of Carney Hospital on Thursday, July 1st, 2010 at 6 p.m. at the IBEW Hall, Local 103, at 256 Freeport Street in Dorchester. The hearing is being sponsored by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and Attorney-General Martha Coakley's Office. Please make every effort to attend this important public event and oppose the sale of Caritas Christi until stronger guarantees of its continuing Catholic identity are in place.

If you cannot attend the hearing, or wish to comment on the other five hospitals, or on the entire Caritas system, members of the public may file comments regarding the transaction by emailing
caritas@state.ma.us or by regular mail to: Public Charities Division/Caritas Transaction, Office of Attorney-General Martha Coakley, One Ashburton Place, Boston, MA 02108.

You may also submit written testimony, before July 30th, to the Department of Public Health, Determination of Need Program, 99 Chauncy Street, Boston. MA 02111.

Powerful corporate, financial, political, and ideological interests are working to destroy Catholic health care in Massachusetts. Given the culture of death which afflicts our country, we need Catholic hospitals now more than ever. Saving Catholic health care should be the top priority of every pro-life citizen of Massachusetts. Please join us in this vital struggle!

(For those of you in the Merrimack Valley, there will be a public hearing regarding the sale of Caritas in the Holy Family Hospital service area at the Tenney Middle School, 75 Pleasant Street, Metheun, MA at 6 p.m. on Tuesday June 29th. Once again, we urge you to testify in person, or send written comments to the above addresses. Thank you.)

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Bryan Hehir on Sister Carol Keehan





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BostonCatholicInsider Blog and the Stewardship of Money at the Archdiocese of Boston

The Boston Catholic Insider Blog has raised quite a few eyebrows on how the Chancery wizards are spending their cash reserves.  The salaries of the employees at the top of the archdiocescan empire are shocking.  (And, by all accounts, this is not a comprehensive list of the highly-paid support staff being added to the top of the empire.)

It was previously reported that the Cardinal has been "underfunding" the pensions of lay employees by 25% and the clergy retirement fund by a whopping 104 million.

Let us  think this through this for a minute:

This is an oversimplification, but generally speaking, as a public charity, the archdiocese has two pots of money.    One pot holds donations that have come in with restrictions on the use of the money for a specific purpose.  In the other pot is the unrestricted money where the Cardinal and his men are free to make judgments about how to spend the money and what bills to pay.

The diocese brought in 334 million and some change in unrestricted cash in 2009.   I have not yet pursued looking at the audited financials and spreadsheets, but I am a little underwhelmed by the transparency of a report that says they spent 182 million on "parish life and leadership" and 25 million in "management and general".   Hopefully, there's more details forthcoming on that 200 million as I'm willing to wager that tens of millions of what was spent was of less urgency than paying into pension funds - but for the moment, let us move forward.

Doesn't an employer have the fiduciary duty to pay their employees pension fund before they spend, let us say, 2 million in public relations?

The judgments on how they spend their unrestricted cash are not gelling for me.

For instance, the archdiocese spent roughly 286 million on Catholic education, faith formation and evangelization in 2008 and 2009.

Even as a Catholic with knowledge that the diocese is spending 286 million on teachers perverting the Catholic religion - evangelizing and educating the next generation "is" a critical ministry.

Still, 286 million?  Couldn't you spent 200 million and put the 86 million into the pensions of people who have earned them?

Wouldn't that be reasonable under the circumstances?

In any event, I have a few questions on why judgments were made to spend so much unrestricted cash on this instead of reserving money to fund employee retirements (as they are legally required to do) and squirreling some cash away for our priests (whose care they should at least feel morally obligated to fund).

On page 16 of the financial report, we have a closer look at the stewardship of the 286 million that looks to me to be throwing money into a big black hole.

In 2004, the Cardinal gave away legal and financial control of archdiocesan Catholic education entities to Peter Meade and a group of lay people. 

If I understand the narrative correctly, in FYE 2009, the archdiocese gave 26 million to the "Fund for Catholic Schools" of which 1.5 million was paid back.  They claim to have six loans that all mature in 2014 they are expected to collect to pay back "the majority" of the 26 million.

Far be it from me to question the financial wizardary of Chancellor Jim McDonough and his colleagues Jack Connors, Peter Meade and company, but in reviewing the history that precedes the paragraph on their expectations of pay back, I'm beginning to wonder if these expectations weren't formed in the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac School of Bad Debt.

"In previous years", the paragraph says, the archdiocese gave 67 million to fund archdiocesan schools when archdiocese transferred "governance and personal property" to lay people (with a long history of dissent) and charged them "nominal rent" on the lease on the land and buildings.

They did not pay back a wooden nickel on these loans.

The archdiocese has written off the 67 million dollars as bad debt.

On top of this bad debt, the report tells us that they charged a million dollars for writing off this debt.  You take a pile of promissory notes out of the draw, you stamp them discharged/canceled, you forward them to the accountants.

A million dollars.

Thank you, come again, 286 million dollars later in 2008 and 2009, bought and paid for out of the priest and lay pensions that are being 'underfunded'. 


(n.b. Apparently, we missed the announcement that lay experiment to take over the stewardship of Catholic education was merged back into the archdiocese in June of 2009?)

Catholic lay people should take note of BostonCatholicInsider before they drop money into the Cardinal's Appeal and the baskets going around on Sundays at Mass.


For what it's worth, here's some free advice for Chancery luminaries:   If people with no verifiable incomes (and crack pipes in their pants pockets) come along to purchase these now empty school buildings, resist the urge to "loan" them the money to buy the buildings.

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Obama's Proabortion Puppet Priest Bryan Hehir at the Catholic Health Association Conference

A new post up on BryanHehirExposed has a very disturbing audio clip of Cardinal O'Malley's highest-ranking cabinet member stumping for the Obama proaborts led by Sister Carol Keehan.

I'm not even going to post any hints about what he said about baby killing millionaire "nun" Carol Keehan.   Go listen and for yourselves.

Here is a good piece of hooey from Cardinal O'Malley's Einstein in another part of his screed whoring himself for the proaborts and the culture of death:


Father Hehir quoted the late Jesuit Father John Courtney Murray in distinguishing between mistakes and errors. Father Murray said mistakes are “deficiencies of intelligence,” while errors are based on a “deficiency of good will…His point was not to assume mistakes are errors. His conclusion was that the Christian community is not in error, no matter how many mistakes are made.”

This man is a vulture.   It would would be better for him and his enablers if he were a pedophile.  

How he's gotten away with the complete destruction of the Roman Catholic religion in America is a testimony to the corruption inside of the Catholic Church. 

Father Hehir, said the debate was complicated by “a disturbing characteristic of the American political process — polarization that is both intellectual and political.”

You want to see polarizing pal, stick around.  Sean O'Malley may build you safety nets with help from the few "friends" he has left at the Vatican but in many ways, you've only just begun to see the whites of the eyes of Boston Catholics.

Speaking of which, when I came home tonight from a long day of work, there was a flurry of emails from Boston Catholics with links to a new Boston blog:

Boston Catholic Insider


Welcome to the Boston Catholic blogging network!








Provincetown Offering First Graders to High Schoolers Condoms and Confidentiality

At last a sanctuary for pedophiles.


Students in Provincetown — from elementary school to high school — will be able to get free condoms at school under a recently approved policy that takes effect this fall. The rule also requires school officials to keep student requests secret, and ignore parents’ objections.
“The intent is to protect kids,’’ said School Superintendent Beth Singer, who wrote the policy that the Cape Cod town’s School Committee unanimously passed two weeks ago. “We know that sexual experimentation is not limited to an age, so how does one put an age on it?’’


Don't worry though, if your first grader goes to the nurse to get the condom, she'll be asking questions before she decides whether to give it out. We all know children being raped by adults would never lie because they've been threatened would they.

“If that were to happen, we would deal with it in a professional and appropriate way,’’ she said. “I don’t anticipate that this policy is going to affect youngsters. It’s there for adolescents.’’

Adolescents?

Don't the statutes for statutory rape cover adolescents?

Aren't school nurses mandatory reporters?

An investigation on whether the child is being sexually exploited falls to a couple of questions by a school nurse?

You know, I've never understood why these same adults don't hand out booze and drugs to kids if they ask for them. If they're asking for booze and drugs, they're going to do it anyway so why not give it to them safely?


They could put aside a couple of rooms at the school with padded walls and beds so licentious and criminal behavior can be supervised. They could do HIV testing before they let them in the room.

Don't they want these kids to have clean sheets, needles and crack spoons?

I see another Sacred Heart Heartbeat coming out of the closet article.

By the way, if you're a practicing Catholic who corrects the theological errors of school officials and receive death threats from the Catholic students, don't expect any calls or threats to cut off funding to the schools from Mary Grassa O'Neill.

UPDATE

Backlash causes Provincetown to reconsider loony policy.

The Provincetown school system is considering changing its controversial new policy of making free condoms available to all students, even younger elementary schoolers, the school board chairman said today.

“I guess the biggest thing [generating controversy] is that it’s for elementary school kids, but where do we draw the line?” said School Committee Chairman Peter Grosso.
 
You don't know where to draw the line?


You draw the line right at the front line of the school.


The age of consent in this state is 18 so anything younger than does not have the capacity to make judgments about whether they are consenting freely or being pressured, hoodwinked, used and exploited.

That is the purpose of the law.


Anybody less than 18 comes to a mandated reporter, you're obligated by law to drop the dime and report it to child protective services.

Creating a policy whereby mandated reporters are sidestepping law seems to me to be illegal.

Making schools places where children come to get condoms is about as dumb as making schools places where they go to get cigarettes, booze rolled joints and matches.


What right does this man have to arm a fifth grade boy with a condom so he can pressure a child to have sex with him?

None.

Paul Shanley eat your heart out.






I heart Stan McChyrstal

McChrystal is not an idiot and so rationally speaking, one would assume his comments in the now infamous Rolling Stone article was in some way the comments of an exasperated General who was already considering an exit strategy.    You don't give a journalist information about the wimps in White House being the real enemy without already having your resignation typed up. 

McChrystal is no Republican hack.  He voted for Obama. 



The profile, titled "The Runaway General," emerged from several weeks of interviews and travel with McChrystal's tight circle of aides this spring. 
It includes a list of administration figures said to back McChrystal, including Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, and puts Vice President Joe Biden at the top of a list of those who don't. 
The article claims McChrystal has seized control of the war "by never taking his eye off the real enemy: The wimps in the White House."

That's what you call a man - on the way out the door, you give testimony.

Wouldn't you love to hijack that testosterone and send him a dossier of the infiltration of heretics in the  Catholic Episcopal Conference in the U.S.?

While cruising to catch up with the McChrystal story, I found the little tidbit about some massage therapist claiming Al Gore sexually assaulted her in 2006 and the press has kept that under the radar?

The woman who alleged the assault through her lawyer declined initially to be interviewed by police and did not want officers to pursue the matter, the Multnomah County district attorney's office said Wednesday. She later reconsidered and met with Portland police detectives in January 2009, telling them she "was repeatedly subjected to unwanted sexual touching."
The detectives concluded after that interview that they lacked enough evidence to proceed with an investigation, the police department said in a statement.

WHAT?

Somebody call Ireland and get Cardinal O'Malley on this spitspot. 

You don't need evidence.

People tell their stories up to 50 years later and you are a rapist.


After the Tribune decided not to publish an article, the woman met with Portland detectives in January 2009 and restated the allegations in person, police said. She said she had kept clothing from the incident as evidence and offered it to the detectives, who declined to take it.
In June 2010, the woman returned to the department, asking for copies of her statements and reports on her claims, police said. "She also advised she was going to take the case to the media," police said. 

And, there you have it.  When there's a cover up, there's plenty of ways now to get the information into the public square.  Lo and behold will come the DA saying there's a possibility of criminal prosecution.

On the other hand, call me a cynic, but you advertise a "deep tissue massage" that costs $450, you can't be surprised when they make certain assumptions that it's a nudge and a wink.

Tipper was carrying quite a cross as several stories covering the story mention a parade of women in Gore's portfolio.  

Put this one on the list of potential for future Sacred Heart coming out of closet articles.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Talking about Touching in Iowa

Cardinal O'Malley's children's protection program has shown up in Iowa.

Instead of taking an inventory of the active sex lives of the whackadoos the Church ordained, kindergartners in Ireland will be violently exposed to this kind of trash. I still have the teacher's manual for the first grade that literally instructs the teacher after a sex lesson to tell the first graders not to do these things in school but go home and do them.

Meanwhile, a few of of Macial's many children are alleging he sexually abused his own children.

Sadly, "the purification" inside of the Legion is excising a tumor of the metastatic cancer the Vatican continues to ignore to this day.

The Blame Game

The audacity of Bishop Zavala to say the USCCB is troubled by faithful Catholics who have taken to exposing their dissent, corruption and ineptitude was the subject of Michael Voris's Vortex yesterday.



Meanwhile, remember how Cardinal George criticized millionaire Sr. Carol Keehan and the Catholic Health Association for setting up a parallel Magisterium?

Today,Secreaty of Communications for the Bishop's Conference, Ms. Helen Osman, gave Cardinal George a can of whoopass, saying Cardinal George never said any such thing, she has an audio proving it but of course will not release it.

At the time of this blog entry, Cardinal George had not stepped up to the plate.

Thread at Fr. Z's.

Any more questions about why bloggers have taken the feather to what's left of the USCCB spines and push them aside to start a conduit for the new evangelism?

As a commenter points out on Fr. Z's blog, Cardinal George is the same guy who awarded Fr. Pfleger with a lifetime achievement award.

Mr. Jeckyll, meet Mr. Hyde.

Carol Keehan is the love child of the counterfeit church the USCCB has been erecting for 40 years. With every act of wimpiness, cowardice, lies, corruption and cover up, the division gets wider and our resolve gets stronger.


There are two armies now gathering within the Catholic Church - today's Vortex:

Monday, June 21, 2010

News Update on the Corrupt and Craven

While dealing with the threats of violence parents face in parishes and schools when they correct errors, the Bryan Hehir Exposed team has some mandatory reading for Catholics called No Backbone for Boston Archbishop.

Among other things, Joe Sacerdo covers the Bryan Hehir gushing about Sister kill children of the poor Carol Keehan at a Catholic Health Association event, more news on the handing off of Catholic education to apostates and heretics with money and the Cardinal O'Malley's ludicrous press release on how much Dean Garvey helped to solidify Catholic identity at Boston College. Given that the Holy See approved of Garvey (over Towey!)and their sanctuary for this corrupt Cardinal, I think they have a long way to fall.

Speaking of which, there's a significant layoff coming down the pike this week at the Chancery. As you know, the Cardinal says they're in fantastic financial shape!

Sunday, June 20, 2010

The Same Catholic Bishops Who Gummed Up (and Mucked Up) Catholic Religion for the Last 40 Years Have Something To Say About Laity

After Forty Years of Distorting (and stealing) the Catholic Religion, Our Liturgy and the Souls of an Entire Generation, they're alarmed that laity has pushed them aside, taken the reigns of teaching (and defending) the Catholic religion.


As I talked with brother bishops in preparation for this presentation, there was consistent agreement that one aspect that is most alarming to us about media is when it becomes unchristian and hurtful to individuals. For example, we are particularly concerned about blogs that engage in attacks and hurtful, judgmental language. We are very troubled by blogs and other elements of media that assume the role of Magisterium and judge others in the Church. Such actions shatter the communion of the Church that we hold so precious.

Get it?

They've "held it so precious".

This is what you call audacity given their stewardship of the Catholic religion.

Did they think we were going to let another generation go by with them at the helm?

Pot, meet the kettle. The USCCB is a congregation that has been constructed between Rome and the faithful whic has no authority to do what they've been doing for the past 40 years - hijacking our religion.

They are a group of individuals who have a history of maligning the reputations of people who have charitably stepped forward to ask them to deliver their children from the pedophiles they hired and people who are finished with the dissent that is now rocking the farce and false church they have erected in the United States.

Truly laughable.

Did anyone bring up the elephants in the room like the National Catholic Reporter? America Magazine? Catholics United, Catholic Democrats (or whatever they morph into when they need a new bully pulpit)?

Ask them what they've done or intend to do about these phony initiatives?

After 40 years of making no judgments whatsoever and an entire generation gone haywire, I have one thing to play on the world's tiniest violin.

You don't like media sources that blog about the teachings of the Church and expose those perverting it?

Boo Hoo.

We like the way we're saying it better than the way you say nothing at all.

There is no respect for truth among the majority of Catholic Bishops. There is no respect for civil and moral and ecclesiastical law.

The only thing that works with Bishops is who can make the biggest amount of noise and create the biggest headaches and conflict. Whoever wins that contest, has the Bishops behind them.

Scandal.
Upheaval.
Argita.


We're going for the first place blue ribbon.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Operation Free the Sacred Heart Fornicators

Sorry 'bout the radio silence.  Busy week.

More news on this later, but quite the crew of vulgar and promiscuous students they're breeding at Sacred Heart.    When they aren't writing threats and profanity, they're giving me intimate details of their sexual acts.    Weird and creepy.  Definitely a threatening and toxic place for practicing Catholics.

As I said, more later.

As everyone in Catholicism knows by now, Boston College apostate (Law School Dean) John Harvey was appointed as President of Catholic University. 

Start HERE at BryanHehirExposed and read the fantastic (as always) coverage of the story.

Here's something to pique your curiosity:

Even though this is slightly off-topic, when someone from Boston has a history of failure to uphold Church teachings, you can predict that Fr. Bryan Hehir and probably Cardinal Sean O’Malley are also involved, and this story is no exception.
And, you can always count on MCFL to sling it for the proaborts:

Dean Garvey has been most generous to Mass Citizens.  He has made available the beautiful facilities of the Law School for MCFL Board meetings and Conventions.  He addressed our Conventions the last two years.  People are still quoting his recent presentation on conscience rights.  We are certainly grateful for his scholarship, his leadership, and his gracious way.

I know you join me in wishing him the very best at Catholic University - and in hoping we may get to see him when we are in DC next January 22nd! 


 The kicker is, a fantastic candidate was also in the running for the job - faithful Catholic and pro-lifer Jim Towey.

Bishop Gracida has his own rundown HERE, aptly named The Boston Virus Continues to Spread Where is the CDC When We Need It.

Meanwhile, the USCCB swarmed to Bishop Lynch's St. Petersburg,  host of the recent Brokeback Mountain booty call conference.


Truth is stranger than fiction. 


Saturday, June 12, 2010

"No Cash Until We See the Teachings of the Church"

The foundation made of straw is collapsing.

One Third of Parishes are operating in the red.

We simply must get a diocesan campaign going that completely shuts off the cash into the Cardinal's coffers.

Every time something comes up like the Cardinal's "Committee" to Snuff Out the Teachings of the Church in Catholic Education, we could send ransom notes to send into the Cardinal's Appeal saying they can have their money back when we see the teachings of the Catholic Church, the whole teachings of the Catholic Church and nothing but the teachings of the Catholic Church.
 

Furthermore, the wizards in the Chancery are certainly not mathematicians, are they.

The report, released this afternoon, said the priest pension fund is currently $104 million underfunded, and the lay pension fund, which was fully funded in 2007, was only 75 percent funded.

But archdiocesan financial officers say the church's long-term financial situation has improved dramatically since Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley arrived in 2003 and the church was staring down a $15 million operating deficit.
HUH?

How can the man be improving the situation when he's gone from a 15 million dollar deficit to a 150 million dollar deficit and he's funding operation by siphoning from people's pensions?

Even if you can ration away that the diocese is 135 million more in the hole than when the Cardinal arrived here, is paying operating expenses with money belonging to people's pensions even legal?

Isn't this a violation of ERISA laws and a breach of fiduciary duty to, for instance, pay out 7 million dollars to mow lawns and pay electric and heating bills of closed Churches so squatters can hold nutty lay-led services that are not even Catholic?

We've simply got to let the diocese collapse by sending our money to authentic Catholic initiatives.