While the Scot Landry situation is still unresolved, he definitely has been asked to step aside from his role in Development which will reportedly be handed over to a group of several individuals from schools that are in the red whose fund-raising history has come in at only 50% of goal.
There is a big sucking sound at every parish that has a school.
In addition to the fundraising problem, parents are not paying the tuition. One-third of the diocesan schools are in serious trouble and they anticipate several closings of schools that are siphoning enough money to threaten the viability of the parish. The objective would be to stabilize the parish before it blows up into more parish closings.
Take out the man making 100% of fundraising goals and replace him with people making 50% of their goal. You must have to be a wizard to for that math to make sense.
Keep in mind that over the last five years, FIVE MILLION has been spent on the squatters in "vigil parishes".
FIVE MILLION DOLLARS to heat, snow plow, cut grass, plant flowers etc at these parishes.
Also keep in mind for the five million dollars spent, there isn't a single Mass said at these parishes. The squatters are doing "communion services" made from hosts they ordered and received in the mail. One step above E-Bay. Nobody seems to care about the origin, the matter or the validity.
Further, take another look at this picture.
See the children in their pajamas on an overnight with no adult in sight?
The Cardinal doesn't know who is coming and who is going. There is no process to run CORI checks on volunteers and people sleeping over with the children. It's open house for perverts and pedophiles.
Landry is the last Catholic on the Cardinal's cabinet and the only person with sound judgment. A liability to have around when your agenda is Karl Marx.
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Many of the St. Frances holdouts describe being transformed from passive Catholics to passionate, deeply involved members of a spiritual community that they say could be a model for the future of the troubled Catholic Church.
“You would think because there are fewer and fewer priests that the various archdioceses would welcome a new configuration,” Mrs. O’Brien said. “Let the lay people do everything but the sacramental.”
Since St. Frances has no priest, parishioners lead services that include everything but consecration of the host. On the Sunday before Christmas, about 50 parishioners attended a service conducted entirely by women, including two who distributed communion. The hosts had been consecrated elsewhere by a priest described by Mr. Rogers’s wife, Maryellen, as “sympathetic.”
HUH???? The world seems to have gone mad.
Scot Landry's position is like trying to do public relations for the IRS. It's a lose-lose proposition. As a Boston Catholic, I'd love to support the Archdiocese IF I could see true, orthodox preaching and teaching, but with some wonderful exceptions, I don't. So I support my local parish, although I know a bit of those funds get eaten up by diocesan fees, and I support groups and causes that are authentically pro-life and Catholic: Human Life International, American Life League, the Cardinal Neumann Society, etc.
Can someone here tell me, who is not from the Archdiocese, when everything started going so rapidly downhill in Boston?
Veronica
Veronica,
It started going downhill in the 1950s, although it didn't pick up speed for a few years, then of course there were years of problems, culminating in 2002 when the abuse scandal broke. See Phil Lawler's book "The Faithful Departed" about the downhill slide of the Church in Boston. We thought Bishop Sean would breathe new life into the diocese, but some of his actions have been mystifying, to be charitable about them. While I'm no fan of the current administration, I do see hopeful signs in some of the priests who've been ordained within the last 12-15 years or so. They seem to get what it means to be a priest. Let's pray for them to hang in there until the baby boomer generation retires.
I'm a baby boomer myself, and I do apologize for my misguided generation. Growing up in the sixties was not easy; the world and Church of 1970 bore no resemblance to the world and Church of 1960. I often wondered how everything could have fallen apart so fast. To be honest with you, the world and Church of 1970 is a vast improvement over what we have today, that's how much worse it has gotten.
Thank you, RC, for answering me. Let us pray for ALL of us to hang in there. My diocese isn't much better.
Veronica
Veronica,
The one thing I would add to RC's analysis is that under Cardinal Law, there was a place to report dissent and have it acted upon. In fact, if you look up an article in the New Yorker written by a famous apostate priest named Walter Cuenin, he is forthright about explaining that dissent could not roll forward so long as Cardinal Law was in the diocese.
Cardinal O'Malley's tenure here has been a disaster for the Deposit of Faith. He checked out almost as soon as he got here. The Cathedra of Boston is sede vacante. In the absence of a Archbishop, Bryan Hehir has took over the reigns of everything. There has been more destruction in the last six years than the fifty before it. People don't know the half of it.
After reviewing the evidence several years ago, one wise priest once told me to tie myself onto the Ark and hold on for dear life.
It was and continues to be savvy advice.
Fr. Amorth on the state of the Vatican
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7056689.ece
Carol
It has come to the point in Holy Mother Church that that is all any of us can do, hold on for dear life. It would be easy to lose my faith at this point. The reality is that there is such corruption in the Church, both in faith and morals, that it is, for all intents and purposes, in the tomb - the Holy Saturday of the Holy Roman Catholic Church.
May our dear Saviour and Redeemer come to our assistance and make haste to help us!
Most Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us!
Veronica
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