[Doug Loss]

You're appalled. How very progressive of you, being upset because someone has a different viewpoint than you. As more than one person has said, the priests in NYC would never have let the civil authorities keep them from performing their sacramental duties on 9/11. Sorry, but you're just wrong.

[Mears]

“—— being upset because someone has a different viewpoint than you.”

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I’m not appalled over a difference of a viewpoint,it’s the questioning of the strength of someone’s faith that bothers me.

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[SuziQ]

As more than one person has said, the priests in NYC would never have let the civil authorities keep them from performing their sacramental duties on 9/11. Sorry, but you're just wrong.

Boston and New York are two entirely different situations. In New York, the police and firemen were concentrating on getting the people out of the buildings. Priests weren't trying to climb the stairs with them, but they were allowed to be on the ground, near the staging areas. That's how Fr. Judge died; one of the people jumping from the upper floors landed on him.

Yes, in Boston there was concern about other possible bombs, but there were plenty of civilians helping the wounded. There is no reason that the priests should have been denied the ability to comfort the dying, and the severely wounded. It wasn't like there were thrity or forty of them. One or two more people inside the cordon weren't going to contaminate the scene any more than the folks already there had done, and the priests would have been willing to take the risk of additional bombs.