By Hilary White
BOSTON, November 23, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Sean O’Malley, the Catholic Archbishop of Boston, has confirmed that he will not be attending the December 9 fundraising dinner of his diocese’s Catholic Charities because of the anti-Catholic positions of Boston Mayor Thomas Menino who is to be honoured at the event.
In a statement dated November 22nd, an announcement from Catholic Charities said, “In light of the mayor’s past statements concerning abortion and same-sex marriage policies, the archbishop regrets that he cannot attend the dinner.”
A spokesman for the archdiocese of Boston confirmed the decision and said that an article was forthcoming in the diocesan paper. No information was available as to whether Catholic Charities regretted their decision to honour the pro-abortion Mayor.
The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts had been protesting the choice of speaker and sent a memo to O’Malley dated November 17, identifying Merino as a supporter of abortion and homosexual “marriage.”
“It would be difficult to identify another nominally Catholic political figure in the United States who, on such a broad range of issues, has, in both his rhetoric and public policy decisions, engaged in such relentless opposition to the moral teachings of the Roman Catholic Church,” wrote the group’s Executive Director, C. Joseph Doyle.
The memo went on to detail Mayor Merino’s career-long history of pro-homosexual and pro-abortion activism including the fact that “in June of each year, Mayor Menino leads Boston’s Gay Pride Parade.” In his first campaign for Mayor, the memo said, Merino “indicated that he would continue the practice of taxpayer financed abortions at Boston City Hospital.”
“Thomas M. Menino is an adversary of the Catholic Church, an opponent of Catholic morality, and a supporter of the culture of death, who has carried on a campaign of aggressive de-Christianization in the municipal government of Boston,” Doyle wrote.
Read the memo from Catholic Action League of Massachusetts:
https://www.excommunication.net/News_home_page/CC&Menino_Dec05.htm