NOV 16, 2000 — U.S. Bishops, at the
annual meeting of the NCCB, conceded that there will be no enforcement of Ex Corde
Ecclesiae, the Vatican directive to ensure Catholic colleges impart Catholic teaching.
Cardinal Law, declared that "theologians have to have the freedom to be
wrong." Added Cardinal Law in an interview: "I don’t want to denounce
people." Click for Boston Globe
article.
NOV 2, 2000
— Senator Ted Kennedy was the keynote speaker
at the dedication of the Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch School of
Education on November 2 at Boston College, according to the November 16 Boston College Chronicle.
University
Trustee Peter S. Lynch, '65, and his wife gave Boston College a gift in excess of $10
million last year to fund the new school.
We expect that Senator Kennedy would not have been present had Peter Lynch disapproved.
For years, Mr. Lynch has been a major fundraiser for the Archdiocese of Boston.
OCT 10,
2000 — NY bishop bans
pro-abortion figures from speaking on Church property and from ministry!
OCT 2, 2000 — The Boston Globe’s Eileen McNamara is upset that
Fall River’s Bishop Sean O’Malley is acting like a Catholic bishop in excluding
gay "marriage" defender Chief Justice Suzanne V. DelVecchio of the
Massachusetts Superior Court from being a speaker at their recent Red Mass dinner for
attorneys and judges (Sunday Globe, 10-1-2000). Eileen also made an ad hominem attack
on pro-life attorney Dwight Duncan, accusing him of being — horrors — "a
conservative confidant of the Catholic hierarchy, …a columnist for Massachusetts
Lawyers Weekly, …a leader in Opus Dei, the lay group known for its strict fidelity to
Catholic doctrine. He is a champion of the antiabortion cause and an active opponent of
gay rights," she warns us. In other words, fidelity to the Catholic Faith=bigotry. We
say, may God bless Dwight Duncan and bless us with more attorneys like him.
SEPT 17,
2000 — Pro-lifers protest
inclusion of Senator Ted Kennedy at 25th anniversary Mass of Bishop Reilly of Worcester
outside of St. Paul's Cathedral in
Worcester.