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.
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.
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!”
