BOSTON, January 12, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Boston Archbishop Sean P. O’Malley celebrated the annual Red Mass yesterday, calling on politicians to fight against the radical redefinition of marriage.
The annual event for politicians and lawyers was told “We cannot afford to be asleep at the switch. We cannot afford to run for cover. Today, at this Red Mass, I call on you, our Catholic lawyers and jurists, to live your baptismal commitment. Your baptism and your profession invest you with a great responsibility. Use your wisdom to defend the truth, to defend marriage. Do it with a passion and do what is right.”
The Archbishop warned, “The prevalence of divorce and cohabitation in the last decades has done great harm to the institution of marriage, by taking the focus off children. Same-sex marriages will only further the tendency to only see marriage as being for the good of the adult without taking into account the children and their interests.”
“We live in an age when our hubris has made us blind to the madness around us, where our courts have undermined the value of life itself and now attempt to dilute the meaning of marriage,” O’Malley said. “In diluting the meaning of marriage, we risk diminishing our own humanity.”
See the Boston Globe coverage.