[ArrogantBustard]

I invite any and all (who will, no doubt, be pinged to this thread) to refute the proposition:

The Archdiocese of Boston is the moral equivalent of a sewer.

[PattonReincarnated]

The Archdiocese of Boston is the moral equivalent of a sewer.

Um, let me see, well on one hand, um, okay, you are right.

[fatima]

ArrogantBustard,Bump.Shame on Them,Keep your money ,save it for local .

[fatima]

ArrogantBustard,Bump.Shame on Them,Keep your money ,save it for local .

[Jim Noble]

The Archdiocese of Boston is the moral equivalent of a sewer.

There are two American bishops who have said they would refuse Kerry communion.

There are more than two who have said they would not, including Kerry's own bishop. Most are silent. When Kerry is President, that will not be an option.

It's not just Boston.

[Aquinasfan]

The Archdiocese of Boston is the moral equivalent of a sewer.

Believe it or not, it's not all bad. The Paulists are the worst. They're a group that hasn't left the '60s. They're holed up in a bookstore/church in downtown Boston. I don't know a lot of what goes on at the archdiocesan level, but I know some good people associated with the archdiocese from the pro-life movement. From some friends who were rejected from a couple of seminaries here, it appears that the seminaries are heterodox and have been infiltrated by homosexuals, to a significant degree.

At the lay level, every parish seems to have a good sized group of solid parishioners. As you move toward the Easter/Christmas crowd, orthodoxy diminishes. I suspect that more than half of the parishioners support abortion and homosexual "marriage."

Then you have the city enclaves of greater fidelity to the Church's teachings, like the Irish in Dorchester, the Portugeuse in Fall River and the Italians in the South End, but these neighborhoods appear to be gentrifying.