Attention Cardinal O'Malley!!

Boston was once a major center of Catholic life and education. It flourished with strong support from the Irish, Italian, French and many other ethnic groups.

And now? It is a center of apostasy and shame. The state of Catholic Colleges is so bad that not one local Catholic college makes either the Cardinal Newman Society College Guide or the one put out by National Catholic Register. Indeed recent events and developments suggest these colleges are leading a full apostasy against the Church.

As reported in this blog, Merrimack College was the first stop for newly-elected secular progressive Governor Deval Patrick. His policies include support for gay marriage, abortion on demand without parental notification, expanded limitless embryonic stem cell research and cloning of humans, casino gambling and every other vice that the Church is against.

Boston College has likewise become a pit of immoral living. Seen on national TV was a proud group of BC women at the pro abortion rally in Washington DC wearing "Boston College Students for Choice" t-shirts and loudly proclaiming their support for abortion. On campus they maintain a link to Planned Parenthood and have hosted V* Monologues. Their dissident theologians are always summoned by major left-leaning main stream media for anti-Catholic opinions.

And then there's our recent story about the close ties between Emmanuel College in Boston and pharmaceutical giant Merck. The college even leases land to Merck for their Boston branch.

So corrupt are these once Catholic colleges that their sin cries to heaven for vengeance. But where is the local Bishop, in this case Cardinal Sean O'Malley? Is he not as strong as his neighbor bishop McManus of Worcester who recently warned Holy Cross College that their Catholic identity was in jeopardy? Why is this behavior allowed. Are these leaders not aware that they are alienating an entire generation of devout believers? Where is a parent to take their child if they want an authentic Catholic experience? Ohio? Virginia? When will O'Malley act in favor of Catholics? Is he too busy closing parishes and paying off abuse victims to restore Catholic identity to his archdiocese? Does he even care?

Merrimack College and Governor Patrick

Why would Merrimack College, a Catholic College in the Archdiocese of Boston, host Deval Patrick, the then governor-elect of Massachusetts? Why not, you ask? For one thing, Patrick ran on a platform that includes support for "Gay Marriage", embryonic stem cell research at taxpayers' expense, abortion rights, and every other anti-Catholic initiative you could think of. He has also said he will not accept federal funding for abstinence education in Massachusetts. That's right. He won't support abstinence education in Massachusetts schools, even as a supplement to the evil anything-goes sex education programs sponsored through planned Parenthood, even though the funding is free.

So again, the question remains, what is a Catholic College doing hosting this man? The only answer is the obvious. They are more than happy to mingle with secular power and scandalize a Church they only faintly remain tied to. One of this blogger's sons took a tour there when choosing a college. Not once did they mention they were Catholic and they left the chapel off the tour.

If Cardinal O'Malley had any honest courage, he'd declare Merrimack and its evil twin Stonehill no longer Catholic.