George Weigel wrote a great column last week or the week before about the 58 priests who signed the letter asking Cardinal Law to step down. It was published in our Arch of Boston newspaper, the Pilot. You cannot believe the priests who wrote in this week and last rebutting Weigel's column - the priests who wrote and were of the "pack of 58" are so prideful it is sad and a few of the letters are downright startling. Keep in mind that these 58 have not been teaching the faith and are the overt progressives in the diocese and they never liked Law anyway.
I have been going back and forth via e-mail with a top VOTF member here in Boston. It just slays me that these people honestly feel like it is their Church to mold in the way that they see fit and right. And I look around at the devistation they have wrought... not even counting what they've done to the Mass or the architecture, but in the kids... very few are churchgoers (even kids educated in the Catholic schools) and very few know their faith - thanx to the CCD classes and hardly anyone lives their life here as a prelude to heaven.
People just don't dedicate their lives to a question mark and that is what these people have taught over the last 35 or so years.