Cardinal takes it in, but now he won't dish it out

When it comes to doing the right thing by the poor and the downtrodden, Bernard Cardinal Law has a message for all us taxpayers.

Give, give, give 'til it hurts. Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, and then some.

Yet when Law himself is asked to meet his obligations to those raped and violated by his priests, His Eminence has a very different response, which is:

What a surprise, eh? In yet another realm, the fraud's message is, do as I say, not as I do.

Responsibility, apparently, is for the flock. When it comes to the higher-ups, they talk the talk, but they wouldn't think of walking the walk. That's for the dopes who still think the second collection is on the level.

Until the recent unraveling of his corrupt empire, the sanctimonious prince of the church annually went to Beacon Hill to bang his tin cup on the State House steps, demanding ever more generous handouts for the shiftless, the indigent and the promiscuous. But now that it's finally Law's turn to buy a round, he's tipping over tables in his unseemly rush to get out of the room. Money for sodomized altar boys? Don't push me, pal. Ever hear of Chapter 11?

Talk is cheap, though, especially for a pompous windbag like Cardinal Law. Two years ago, for example, Bernie ``summoned the state's top leaders'' to a meeting on health care reform.

A year earlier, in 1999, the lefty issue du jour was affordable housing. Law was reported to have ``weighed in,'' demanding business leaders ``play a role in addressing the housing crisis.''

Among the suggestions the Cardinal did not offer to ameliorate the plight of the homeless was the setting up of barracks for bums in his own posh mansion on Lake Street. He also did not sign over the deed to his oceanfront summer palace in Pocasset in order to provide shelter for the most vulnerable members of our society.

Next, here's a story from 1995. The cardinal denounced then-Gov. William Weld for ``taking away subsistence support to a child, for whatever reason.'' It's for the children, you see. As for the children who were raped by his priests, well, they'd better get used to the concept of 2 cents on the dollar.

Here's another gem from the 1995 story about Cardinal Law demanding more welfare for teen moms:

``He decided to speak out after Pope John Paul II, during his U.S. visit last week, asked American Catholics to raise their voices on moral issues.''

Bernie Law on a moral issue? Now, that's funny. Just like when he spoke out on the war with Iraq, didn't you think to yourself, ``Hmmm, now that we're checking in with local moral leaders, what's Steve Flemmi's take on this issue?''

By the way, in that same 1995 story, among those quoted as denouncing the plan to cut taxpayer handouts to welfare moms was then-House Speaker Good Time Charlie Flaherty, who a few months later would plead guilty to a felony - lying to the IRS to avoid paying income taxes.

Good Time Charlie - another liberal phony who wanted to raise your taxes but didn't think he should have to pay himself. Like Sen. Dianne Wilkerson, the Roxbury tax cheat.

This is an affliction of the Beautiful People, this willingness to tax everyone else back into the Stone Age while personally tossing around quarters like manhole covers.

Liveshot Kerry - the other JFK - had plenty of money for toys like sailboats and imported motorcycles, but no money for charity until he began stalking Mrs. Big Ketchup. Remember how the Clintons took tax write-offs for their ``charitable deductions'' of used underwear and shower curtains?

A few years back, Bernie Law's paper, The Pilot, attacked me in an editorial. I forget what they were worked up about - welfare for illegal aliens, maybe - but the gist was, I was a bad Catholic. I hadn't been that concerned about spending eternity in hell since back in 1961, when Msgr. O'Mahoney warned me of the dire peril that pepperoni pizza posed to my immortal soul, at least if it was consumed on a Friday.

Well, Bernie, all I can tell you is, I may be a bad Catholic, but I pay my bills, I've never filed for bankruptcy, and I never wrote a mash note to Father Shanley. And The Pilot can quote me on that.

Howie Carr's radio show can be heard every weekday afternoon on WRKO AM 680, WHYN AM 560, WGAN AM 560, WEIM AM 1280, WXTK 95.1 FM or online at howiecarr.org.

Carr's right on this one and has been on a roll these last couple of weeks with all the corruption seeping out of Boston.

Law has been reportedly "holed up" in Rome while the Vatican tries to decide what to do about declaring the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston bankrupt.

This is the American way. This applies to the whole country and its leaders not only the Church and its leadership..This applies to our Congress,our President and all states and local governments. Do as I say not as I do.They have taxed and wasted for so long and now its time to pay up the only thing they can do it is to steal once again from the poor and average person.
"The Rule of Law" is a scam to protect the rich and keep the average "Jane " or "Joe" in check.Send me your taxes to run my empire and your children to die to protect us of the upper echelon.The American Way!This country needs another REVOLUTION.

I went to Catholic grade school and high school. I was raised Catholic in a Catholic family. ........and I am sicked by the lack of moral backbone by the Catholic church. I place much of the blame on that stupid, morally weak Pontif who is too busy being European to be moral.

Protestants are saying, 'See, Martin Luther was right. A large, bureaucratic church is inherently corrupt. You cannot wield great power in a quasi-secular hierarchy and still be a man of religion. It's not Law's fault, it's just a fact of human nature.'

Being from the Boston area, I know people that were close to Law (not that close!) who told me many disturbing things about him and the Boston diocese. Didn't believe him at the time. I also have a friend that entered a Boston area seminary, and had to leave because of the excessive "interpersonal" relationships that were developing in the institution. Guess I should have believed him too. It is just sad.

This is the kind of crap that would have ruined the Boy Scouts too, if the liberals had gotten their way.

Well, Bernie, all I can tell you is, I may be a bad Catholic, but I pay my bills, I've never filed for bankruptcy, and I never wrote a mash note to Father Shanley. And The Pilot can quote me on that.

A great shot by Howie, right to Bernie's ample solar plexus.

Where did the supposedly indigent Shanley get $300,000 to bail himself out of jail today? And how come this happens right after Fast Bernie does a shifty two-step at the Vatican? If you ask me, Bernie and Paul Shanley are two peas in a pod. Paul knows who Bernie's intimates are, and have been. When is the AG of Massachusetts going to break up this criminal enterprise run by Bernie and his baby-raping colleagues?

When is the AG of Massachusetts going to break up this criminal enterprise run by Bernie and his baby-raping colleagues?

Tom Reilly is a Bulger Mob buttboy and will never do anything about this kind of corruption in the state.

As the old joke goes if you want to hide something from the AG just stick it in a law book.

He somehow thinks that by continuing to sue Microsoft he can seem to be actually doing something. The liberals love it when he talks rough and the Mob backs him 100% so long as Microsoft is the only thing he does.

BTW "he's a good catholic".

I have it on pretty good authority Bernie "Bunny" Law is quite the queen at home. He's entertained a notorious homosexual City of Boston attorney many times out at the mansion.

Surely someone must have pictures of "Bunny" entertaining the boys. Does he have a red lace dress? The National Enquirer would pay a bundle for photos.

Saw Reilly on TV this evening trying to talk tough about what he's gonna do to Law. Somehow, he didn't sound very convincing.

If it's true that there are prominent Bostonian Catholics involved in a homo ring, who would have the courage to expose them?

And how did the indigent Paul Shanley come up with $300,000 CASH to buy his way out of jail? Shanley must have the good on these guys.

How many of them visited Shanley's nude homo motel/resort in Palm Springs, where little boys were brought in from Mexico?

Will we ever get to the bottom of it?

All good questions Palladin.

The coinkydinks of Law being served by a reluctant AG Reilly AND Law going on the lam to the Vatican AND Shanley getting sprung to P-town is a little too much.

What I can't figure is where Whitey Bulger fits into this unless he was supplying boys to Law. Half the politicians in Massachusetts are burning the pictures of themselves standing next to Bunny Law.

Powerful writing. Thanks.

the sanctimonious prince of the church annually went to Beacon Hill to bang his tin cup on the State House steps, demanding ever more generous handouts for the shiftless, the indigent and the promiscuous. But now that it's finally Law's turn to buy a round, he's tipping over tables in his unseemly rush to get out of the room. Money for sodomized altar boys? Don't push me, pal.

They never get past talking the talk...

Liberals are HYOPOCRITES!! Remember Gore gave less than $350.00 one year in CHARITABLE DONATIONS!!!

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