Are you sure it's "arrogance" on O'Malley's part. I ask because he strikes me as very reserved, and since I'm like that myself, I tend to sympathize (though even I can pretend to be outgoing and social for a few hours at a stretch if I have to!)
This is getting worse -- still a talk radio subject, now that Menino has jumped into the fray, offering Faneuil Hall for the graduation ceremonies (I was guessing wrong above -- apparently the graduating class is the 6th grade; just what we need, piling on 11-year-olds!). Couldn't O'Malley have offered the Cathedral and given out diplomas himself?
Howie Carr admitted that even he couldn't make fun of Menino on this -- a first!
Even from what little I know of Lennon, I was sorely disappointed that O'Malley kept him on in a position of authority. Though that Coyne as spokesman (thank God!) seems no longer to be in evidence.
They really have to fire the lawyers and PR flaks and hire some human beings with no axe to grind, no agenda.
I was there a little while, had conversations with the man and found him very standoffish. Lennon I always struck me as a guy who would "steal your wallet and help you look for it"
As for Coyne, what's worse is he is now teaching homiletics at St. John's....do we really want THAT guy teaching Seminarians how to be Priests?
I am long gone from there, they couldn't care less about the Church...in my department there were six practicing Catholics among 18 employees and two of them cohabitated.
In addition bloated salaries, I was frequently criticized for quoting the Catechism about what the Church teaches.
I even heard the Pope Joan myth promoted by a Cabinet Secretary (who by the way leaves at 2 every day to go with his 200k salary).