Orchestrated efforts against the Archdiocese and Caritas Christi Abortion Industry

I'm starting to organize a full scale opposition to the abolition of the conscience clause by Cardinal O'Malley.

This will include US Bishops, the Papal Nuncio, local and national prolife organizations, Catholic Medical Associations and other grassroots groups that will, if necessary, orchestrate street presence in front of the Rectory at the Cathedral, those who will follow the Cardinal wherever he goes to pass out literature on how Cardinal O'Malley proposes to abolish the conscience clause - etc. Quite frankly, civil litigation by several groups of Catholics is on the table once the "partnership" moves forward.

It's important for everyone to understand how deceptive the Cardinal and Caritas are being.

They are trying to claim the Cardinal signed off on this because the healthcare providers at Caritas will not have to do a referral to the abortionist.

This is so completely deceptive, it couldn't be anything but deliberate.

Caritas will be the first point of contact for the pregnant woman, that woman will either be happy or want an abortion - if she wants an abortion she will tell the physician or health care worker and ask for the referral. It appears Bryan Hehir set up the partnership so that the woman who wants the abortion calls a middle person who isn't the abortion facility and the middle man will give her the details of who to call for the abortion.

Two things:

1. If the woman asking for the referral to the abortionist is a Catholic, the healthcare worker at Caritas is now forbidden to perform the duty of her baptismal call and explain why as a Catholic, abortion is not an option. The Catholic Hospital can no longer act on behalf of the Church in discussing matters about abortion.

The Cardinal is forcing a sin of omission.

2. The fact that Caritas is giving the pregnant woman a number to call to get the number to call is a referral and a forced material cooperation in the abortion.

The Cardinal is forcing the sin of material cooperation in abortion and abolishing the conscience clause for Catholic healthcare workers.

Here's an email from a priest, simply put:

Dear Carol,
Ave Maria!
I have not followed the details of this matter, but it is true to say that referral to evil is, in Catholic morality, a level of co-operation in evil.

No contributor to the common good provides every service or every good (or, in this case, every evil). If the Commonwealth is not content to accept those services which Catholic institutions are offering, then, in the present system, it can shut them down, but it is the Commonwealth that should answer to the people for such a senseless and corrupt action.

There is no conceivable reason why the public should not be happy and grateful for those services that Catholic Institutions offer, and go elsewhere for whatever it is that these good institutions do not provide.

If these long standing and venerable Institutions (despite the fact that their modus operandi should be after centuries "grand fathered in") are "shut down" by public officials, then it is, pure and simple, because they have a new agenda other than the public good.
God bless.
In Christ,
Father__________

Furthermore, Caritas and the Archdiocese are claiming they have some kind of privelige as a 501 (c)3 in Massachusetts to be exempt from filing annual reports which is a legal requirement to do any kind of business in the Commonwealth and revealing the names of their Boards of Directors.

Until recently Caritas Christi was unambiguously owned and operated by the Archdiocese of Boston, with the archbishop as chairman of the board and the chancellor and vicar general also serving as board members. But the health-care agency has suffered financial and administrative difficulties, and last year the attorney general of Massachusetts stepped in to demand a restructuring of the board, allowing greater government oversight. Today Caritas Christi declined to identify the members of the reconstituted board, or even to say whether or not Cardinal Sean O'Malley remains the chairman. But in announcing the agreement with the attorney general, Caritas Christi assured the public that the agency would remain faithful to the moral teachings of the Catholic Church. CWN learned that at least one priest of the Boston archdiocese, Father J. Bryan Hehir, remains on the board, with a mandate to protect the agency's Catholic identity.

The fox is protecting the henhouse.

I digress.

It will be news to a great many non-profits that you can sign checks and authorize business transactions without being registered in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and filing annual reports to keep your entity in good standing.

Who do they think they are, refusing to reveal the names of their Board of Directors?

Their General Counsel has a problem with his license and that is all I have to say regarding that matter at this particular point in time.

Stay tuned.