Ireland's Adolf Hitler, Enda Kenny, being honored at Boston College

No doubt you've already heard the news that the Ireland's Adolf Hitler is being honored at Boston College.

As you can imagine, Boston (and national) prolifers have been quite busy behind the scenes.

I'll bet you're wondering how a Cardinal Archbishop of Boston would respond to the honoring of a man whose current project is lethally exterminating the infants of financially and spiritually impoverished women?

Here's a multiple choice quiz on Cardinal O'Malley's response:

1. He released a statement saying Kenny is doing irreparable harm and disservice to Christ's Church.
2. He immediately used his authority to demand Boston College rescind the invitation.
3. He said he would be unable to attend due to something he already had on his schedule.

Hint: A certain Boston Catholic blogger behaved badly.

On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Carol Mckinley wrote:

Hi Terry (Donilon, Cardinal O'Malley's 'spokesperson'),

Did the below statement come from you?

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pm-foisting-abortion-on-ireland-to-be-honored-by-catholic-boston-college

 

 

Responding to a request for comment, the Archdiocese of Boston noted that Cardinal Sean O'Malley was not scheduled to attend the Commencement due to another commitment.

 

Are we to understand this as the Cardinal's response?

 

He isn't going to be there due to the fact he has another event already on his calendar? 

 

 Enda Kenny is a ferocious enemy of Christ's Church who is, as we speak, actively entrapping Catholic souls into murder and spiritual mayhem.  

 

You will not be surprised to hear me say that this sissified response is just not acceptable.   The Cardinal needs to put on the big boy pants and get this man off of the schedule.

 

Peace,Carol

I sent followup emails asking Terry, the Vicar General (among others) to have the courtesy to respond, explaining time is of the essence and prolife Catholics intend to appeal to the Holy See for intervention, explaining that there's isn't a dime's worth of difference between 'honoring' Kenny and the Taliban.


They responded with the usual and customary/decades-old pastoral policy.  You know the one?

Same one they used on mothers reporting their children were being raped:  When they do not call or respond to your communications pleading with them to stop the abuse - you know it's them.

CJ Doyle of the Catholic Action League has called for a protest (more on that later), released the following:

The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today condemned Jesuit administered Boston College for selecting Republic of Ireland Taoiseach Enda Kenny as its 2013 Commencement Speaker. The university will also confer an honorary Doctor of Laws degree on Kenny during commencement exercises on May 20th.

 

On April 30th, Kenny's coalition government introduced legislation with the Orwellian title "The Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013," which would legalise abortion in Ireland under the guise of preventing the suicide of pregnant women. As there is no gestational age limit to the measure, it would mean abortion on demand, under threat of suicide, through all nine months of pregnancy.

 

Catholic hospitals would be forced to comply with the proposed law. Moreover, the bill contains no conscience clause protections for physicians, nurses, and other health care workers.

 

The Catholic Church has denounced the measure and called upon the Irish people to lobby their elected representatives to oppose it. Cardinal Sean Brady, the Primate of Ireland, said the bill, if approved would "make the direct and intentional killing of unborn children lawful in Ireland." Brady went on to say that: "It is a tragic moment for Irish society when we regard the the deliberate destruction of a completely innocent person as an acceptable response to the threat of the preventable death of another person."

 

Kenny has threatened to expel pro-life Catholic TDs (members of parliament) from his Fine Gael parliamentary party if they refuse to vote for measure, which is expected to be acted upon in July.

 

 Last year, Kenny's government published legislation---The Criminal Justice (Withholding of Information on Offences Against Children and Vulnerable Persons) Bill---which would impose criminal penalties, including imprisonment up to five years, on priests who refuse to violate the seal of the confessional in cases of sexual abuse.

 

In a July, 2011 speech, Kenny misrepresented the words of Pope Benedict XVI to imply that the Pontiff approved the cover up of sexual abuse and castigated what he called the "dysfunction, disconnection, elitism" and "narcissism" of the Vatican. Following that attack, Kenny closed the Irish Embassy to the Holy See.

 

Boston College said Kenny represents the "progressive center" and is committed to "social justice."

 

The Catholic Action League called Kenny's selection "an astonishing, appalling, disgraceful and deplorable act of betrayal."

 

Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle stated:"Even for a university whose Catholic identity is as compromised as that of BC, this decision is shameful and dishonorable. Boston College has gone beyond promoting dissent against Catholic teaching to giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the Church. Every faithful Catholic in this country ought to protest against this odious perfidy."

 

Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle is an alumnus of Boston College.

Judie Brown of the American Life League has expressed the reasons why the invitation should be rescinded (much more graciously than I) along with many other local and national prolifers.

Boston College spokesperson Jack Dunn today told a reporter for the Irish Times that their ceremony honoring Enda Kenny has nothing to do with his lethal extermination of Irish children.

Get it?

Pay no attention to the dismembered bodies of the victims of Kenny's political empire.

Dunn said they dig Kenny because is an internationally respected leader, with a well-known reputation for (-brace yourself-) promoting human rights that resonate with Boston College.  It's all about the sons of Boston's Irish immigrants. 

How's that for diabolical?

On the same day the Cardinal released his response, somebody posted a video on youtube that was a dramatic enactment.

In a village in the wiles of some jungle, a black family - grandparents, parents, children - were being beaten with pieces of trees by others in the village.  There was a very large crowd - hundreds - standing by watching it.  The beating was driving them into a nearby pit, where trees were lit on fire. The video zoomed in on the victims as they desperately tried to escape.  The villagers beat them back into the pit. Sometimes picking them up and throwing them into it.  The victims rocked back and forth and wailed as the fire consumed their clothes and then their flesh.  Hundreds stood around with their arms folded, watching.

Sickened by Boston College and Fr. Fahey, sickened the Cardinal, sickened by the Archdiocese, I forced myself to watch it. 

This is exactly what they are doing.

What many are doing.

Too many are doing.

Praying for the victims in that village, the hundreds of thousands who die every day at the hands of their tyrants, those who watch with their arms folded, those who support and honor the liars and murderers. 

Testifying: We see what they are doing and God sees what they are doing.

UPDATE

Boston.com has more.

Irish bishops have spoken out against the measure, calling it “a dramatic and morally unacceptable change to Irish law.”

"It is a tragic moment for Irish society when we regard the deliberate destruction of a completely innocent person as an acceptable response to the threat of the preventable death of another person,” they said in a state earlier this month...

From CJ:  Kenny has misrepresented the words of Pope Benedict XVI, insulted the Holy See and closed the Irish Embassy to the Vatican, “ the statement says. “At a time when the Church and the entire pro-life movement in Ireland is resisting this evil man, Boston College is honoring him!”
 

Jack Dunne said it's about heritage. Just a couple of harps celebrating their heritage with a jig. I guess it's a good thing for Boston Fr. Leahy and Jack Dunne are not Russians. It is entirely possible they'd honor a couple of bombers. Independent of bombings. Of course.

7100 Complaints about Boston College Abortion Links

Lots of people thought it was mighty nice of Fr. Leahy to help Catholic students Boston College Law School by offering them pro bono abortion abortion and contraception services from Planned Parenthood.


When you call other people to get their opinion, like the Massachusetts Bishops, about offering to kill people for free at a Catholic College, they don't have any opinion at all.


Other people don't like it very much but they think it's very uncharitable and uncivilized to insist the Bishop do something about Fr. Leahy's offer to hook up Catholic women to people to kill their unborn child.


Here's 7100 people who think killing people, even when it is pro bono, is simply too important to ignore.

The listing was pulled after the TFP launched a peaceful online protest, which generated over 7,100 emails, personal letters and phone calls urging the president of Boston College, Fr. William Leahy, S.J., to remove the mention of Planned 

Sometimes, kicking up a stink on behalf of people being exploited and victimized, even when it's being done by priests and the misfeasance and malfeasance of Bishops, is worth getting upset about.

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!

Sons of Patrick Group at Boston College

"St. Patrick’s Day in Boston: noise and beer. Green-haired Irish wannabes pack bars and compete for bragging rights as the last “pub crawl” survivor left standing."


Boy, it's really uplifting to read this article about a faithful priest leading a "gentleman's group" at Boston College that focuses on male-female relationships.

Sons of St. Patrick, a band of Boston College undergraduates, should easily blend into this overindulgent crowd, right?

Not on your Blarney Stone.

“I warned them that around here that name sounds like a drinking club,” said Father Paul McNellis, a BC philosophy instructor who moderates the four-year-old fraternal group.

Sons is not an official BC organization. It’s a grassroots “society of Catholic gentlemen,” according to its mission statement.

Its hundred or so members really aim to imitate the patron saint of Ireland and Boston by leading virtuous lives and evangelizing. They want their actions, “particularly in their interaction with women, to reflect an understanding of what it means to be a disciple of Christ.”

Founded on the pillars of faith, fortitude and fraternity, the Sons of St. Patrick is “dedicated to fostering a community of virtue, character and faith amongst our peers and surrounding society.”

Now THIS is a big bleeping deal!

I saw one of their upcoming meetings and the topic was how to respond to the datehookup culture.

Spectacular work by this priest!

Advice for Peabrained Boston College Professors: Hang Some Garlic Around Your Neck

Mark Shea memorializes exactly what we're thinking about the closet bigots at BC!



Only the Boston Globe could spin the hatred BC professors has for the Crucifix as evidence Catholics are enemies of diversity.

Apparently, the handful of rogue professors even circulated a a "petition" to have the Crucifixes removed.

Love the quote from Fr.John Paris:

"Christian iconography and symbols permeate this place and always have," said the Rev. John Paris, a Jesuit priest who teaches bioethics at BC. Paris said he finds "offensive" the notion that a crucifix impedes the ability of students or faculty to think critically in a classroom and called the criticism "the narrow and bizarre musings of a few disgruntled folks."

"This is a small problem for those with small minds," Paris added. "This is not a serious controversy."

Can anyone find Michael Paulson's biases in this paragraph:

The crucifixes and statuary are also being lauded by conservative critics of Catholic academia. An organization called the Cardinal Newman Society, which routinely bashes Catholic colleges for straying from orthodoxy, praised BC, while the National Catholic Register, a right-wing newspaper, called the crucifixes "an unexpected move at Boston College."

Right-wing wingnut fringe whack jobs.

Mark also posted this interesting link.

Benedict Groeschel: You and I were talking and you told me an anecdote about when they took the crucifixes down from the classroom walls at Boston College. I think this anecdote is a little bit long, but I think our audience would be very interested to hear it.

Peter Kreeft: Well, I was teaching comparative religions, and during the long break, there was a Jewish student and a Muslim student in the front row. The Jewish student noticed a faint cross painted on the wall behind me, so he asked me, "Is that supposed to be a cross?"

I started to explain that that's where the crucifix used to be, and another student, a Catholic, said "Oh, we took the crucifixes down last year."

"Why did you do take them down?"

"Oh, well, we didn't want to offend people."

"When did you take them down?"

"Well, let's see. 1979."

"Aha," said the Jewish student. "It was the Bundy money."

No one understood that, so he explained that President Carter's secretary of state, McGeorge Bundy, had brokered a deal by which federal money could go to private schools if and only if those schools were not sectarian, divisive, discriminatory... something like that. And - by coincidence - all 21 Jesuit colleges took down their crucifixes from their classrooms in the year following that decision. So when he explained that to the students, the students were rather scandalized, and one said, "Oh, no, we wouldn't do that for money."

And he said, "Of course you wouldn't, but I hope you got more than thirty pieces of silver this time." Rather wicked... some of them were so biblically illiterate that he had to explain to them that Judas Iscariot was the first Catholic bishop to accept a government grant.

But then the student said, "No, we did that to be ecumenical."

And then the Muslim chimed in.

"What is ecumenical?"

So the student said, "Oh, ecumenical means we think we're all equal, and we didn't want to discriminate against others, and offend outsiders."

And the Muslim said, "You mean people like me, and my friend the Jew?"

"Well, yes."

"Well, I am highly insulted."

"Why?"

"Well, you're treating me like a bigot."

"No, we hate bigotry."

"Let me explain. Suppose you came to my country. You enrolled in a Muslim university. Now we don't have pictures or images; we think that's idolatry, but when you are in a Muslim university, you know you are in a Muslim university. Who would object to a Muslim symbol in a Muslim university, except a bigot? Now you expect me to be offended by a Catholic symbol - the crucifix - in a Catholic university, so you are treating me like a bigot."

Everyone was thinking.

He didn't stop. He said to the students, "How many of you believe that Jesus is the Son of God?"

And most of them raised their hand.

He said, "Well, we Muslims don't believe that; the Koran says that's blasphemy, that's ridiculous, but we have a great devotion to Jesus. We hardly ever mention his name without saying, 'Blessed be he' or 'Blessed be his name' and we think he's one of the greatest men who ever lived, and he is a great prophet, and we love him and his mother Mary. And if we had pictures of him, we would never take them down, not for any money in the world. In fact," he said, and he was now waxing eloquent, "what if some soldiers came into our classroom and said, 'We demand that you take down this offensive picture of the prophet Jesus'? Every good Muslim would go in front of that picture and say, 'You will take down this picture of our beloved prophet Jesus over our dead bodies. We would be glad to be martyrs for him.' So I think we are better Christians than you are."

You could hear a pin drop.

Boston College Puts Crucifixes "Back" - - There is hope

How did it ever get to the point where a Catholic Institution could be talked into stripping and hiding Jesus Christ?

At Boston College, the placement of Christian art, including crucifixes, in classrooms over winter break has stirred some intense discussions over that particular expression of the Roman Catholic (and catholic) university’s identity. And over whether it’s undergoing an identity crisis.

“A classroom is a place where I am supposed, as a teacher, to teach without any bias, to teach the truth. And when you put an icon or an emblem or a flag, it confuses the matter,” said Amir Hoveyda, the chemistry department chair.

“For 18 years, I taught at a university where I was allowed to teach in an environment where I felt comfortable. And all the sudden, without any discussion, without any warning, without any intellectual debate, literally during the middle of the night during a break, these icons appear,” Hoveyda said.

An icon of Jesus Christ interferes with Amir Hoveyda's ability to teach "the truth"?

What is positively fascinating, is that these people think they are the sharpest tools in the shed:

But Dwayne Eugène Carpenter, chair of the romance languages and literatures department and co-director of the Jewish studies program, said the placement of religious art is in fact divisive. These symbols, he said, are not neutral. “I think it’s naive to believe that affixing crucifixes is going to fan the flames of religious devotion. On the other hand, it can have a negative effect on students” who might see them as creating an unwelcoming environment.

“I think there were many people who were upset.

“I think it’s in an identity crisis,” Carpenter continued, of Boston College. “At the same time that it wants to proclaim its Catholic identity, it also wants to recruit the best. You can’t recruit the best by placing crucifixes in every classroom.

Somewhere, somebody is playing the worlds tiniest violin for Carpenter and his colleagues offended by Christ.

Father Kennedy, who is director of Boston College’s Jesuit Institute and a professor of music, continued: “For the identity of Boston College as a Jesuit and Catholic institution which we so proudly have inherited, and so happily transmit to the next generation of alumni/alumnae, impels us as John Paul also noted, ‘to offer to share the deep desire we have of recognizing ourselves in the crucifix, and of seeing it, not as something that divides, but as something that is to be respected by all, and that in a certain sense can unify.’ ”

A turnaround at BC.

That is pretty amazing.