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BOSTON, November 28, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Boston Archbishop Sean O'Malley wrote a pastoral letter last week calling on Catholics to show true love to persons with homosexual tendencies. This is done he said by telling them that homosexual acts are sinful, he said. Otherwise, the bishop continued, we are dangerously "deceiving people." After clarifying that the Catholic Church does not tolerate unjust discrimination towards persons with homosexual tendencies, the leader of the Catholic Church in Boston reminded Catholics that although Jesus did not condemn the woman caught in adultery, he did however - after saving her life - tell her...

Disagreement over Mayor Thomas Menino's views on abortion and same-sex marriage has prompted Archbishop Sean O'Malley to cancel plans to attend the annual Catholic Charities Christmas dinner next month. Also, O'Malley is sending a letter to every parish in the archdiocese in which he says the church's opposition to gay marriage should not be interpreted as hostility toward homosexuals, and Catholics should strive to end discrimination toward gays and lesbians. The Catholic Charities fundraising dinner is honoring Menino, an outspoken advocate of abortion rights and gay marriage. The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts, a conservative Catholic group, has called for...

O'Malley won't attend dinner at which Menino is honored November 24, 2005 BOSTON --Disagreement over Mayor Thomas Menino's views on abortion and same-sex marriage has prompted Archbishop Sean O'Malley to cancel plans to attend the annual Catholic Charities Christmas dinner next month.Also, O'Malley is sending a letter to every parish in the archdiocese in which he says the church's opposition to gay marriage should not be interpreted as hostility toward homosexuals, and Catholics should strive to end discrimination toward gays and lesbians. snip-------------- The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts, a conservative Catholic group, has called for a boycott of the dinner...

Boston, Nov. 23 (CWNews.com) - Boston's Archbishop Sean O'Malley will not attend a December dinner honoring the city's Mayor Thomas Menino. The dinner is a fundraising event for the local office of Catholic Charities. The archbishop's withdrawal from the December 9 event follows a series of protests from lay Catholic leaders, who have pointed to Mayor Menino's record on key moral issues. C.J. Doyle, executive director of the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts, cited the mayor's "relentless opposition to the moral teachings of the Roman Catholic Church" in a November 17 statement urging the archbishop not to attend the dinner....

Kerry Snubs Cardinal on DNC Blessing United Press International The Democratic Party is asking a Paulist priest instead of the archbishop of Boston to bless its national convention, the Boston Globe reported Monday. The campaign of Democratic presumptive presidential candidate John Kerry has announced that it has asked the Rev. John B. Ardis, director of the Paulist Center, to deliver the traditional invocation at the four-day national convention beginning Monday night, the Globe said. Kerry spokesperson Stephanie Cutter told the newspaper that the campaign had not asked the Catholic archbishop of Boston, Cardinal Sean O'Malley to give the blessing. We...

John Kerry (news - web sites) says he is a proud, churchgoing Catholic, but the former altar boy insists he won't be bossed around by the Pope. "As John Kennedy said very clearly, I will be a President who happens to be Catholic, not a Catholic President," Kerry, whose pro-choice stance violates church teaching against abortion, told Time magazine. "We have a separation of church and state in this country," said the Massachusetts Democrat, who would be the nation's second Catholic commander in chief if elected. "I don't tell church officials what to do, and church officials shouldn't tell American...

Pinch's "Boston Globe" Says Sunday's Rally With Archbishop O'Malley Is "Hate Rally"; Trying to Frighten People and Lower Attendance Pinch Sulzberger's "Boston Globe" said today that Sunday's rally at the State House against gay marriage with Archbishop O'Malley will be a "hate rally." This, of course, is a code word that the homosexuals will be there to cause trouble, said many who still remember the rallies in the summer of 2002 to pass the Protection of Marriage Amendment. "Sulzberger's paper did not make this statement itself, of course," said Sally Pawlick, President of Mass. Citizens for Marriage. "They got out...

<p>BOSTON -- The Boston Archdiocese has settled a wrongful death lawsuit in one of the most notorious cases to emerge from its clergy sex abuse crisis -- a priest who fathered two children with a woman, then fled when she overdosed on drugs.</p>

The $55 million settlement offer from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston is not the end of the scandal of sexually abusive priests in the Boston area. Surely, though, it is the beginning of the end. For that the community is most thankful, and there is only one person to thank: the new archbishop, Sean O'Malley. O'Malley showed what a difference a savvy new hand on the tiller can mean. Organizations of all kinds know much can be accomplished by a dramatic display of difference from a discredited previous leader. New legal counsel produced the offer, said to have been...

When Sean O'Malley was installed as Boston's new archbishop last week, everyone noted that he's guaranteed to become a cardinal. True, but if church custom holds he could wait more than eight years before getting his red hat. The reason: Though O'Malley's predecessor Bernard Law has resigned as Boston archbishop, he remains a cardinal eligible to vote for the next pope until he turns 80 on Nov. 4, 2011, and no American city has ever been allowed two simultaneous papal electors.

O'Malley Urged to Impose Tough Love on Kennedy, Kerry; Presence of Deadly Dozen Senators at Installation Mass Would Give Archbishop Challenge, Opportunity 7/29/03 8:30:00 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: Joe Giganti of the Crusade for the Defense of Our Catholic Church, a project of the American Life League, 703-928-9695; e-mail: jgiganti@all.org Web site: http://www.all.org WASHINGTON, July 29 /U.S. Newswire/ -- "Christ often preached His truth to reprobates, turning some of the worst public sinners into His most devoted disciples," said American Life League president Judie Brown. "Archbishop Sean O'Malley might have such an opportunity this Wednesday at his...

The line tumbled out during Bishop Sean O’Malley’s first news conference in Boston: “People’s lives are more important than money.” It is a line so obvious for a religious leader that used in the course of a normal Sunday sermon it might elicit a yawn, but in the context of the clergy sex abuse scandal it registered as a refreshingly new approach. Other lines tumbled out during O’Malley’s first meeting, through the media, with the people of Boston and the wider world. “The entire church feels the pain of this scandal and longs for relief for the families and the...

As the Capuchin friars of Roxbury gather for their morning prayer and their long days of study and service, they walk through the three-decker they have converted into a friary and look up at a painting of the San Damiano Crucifix. It is from such a cross, Franciscans believe, that God spoke to Francis of Assisi 900 years ago, instructing him to repair a broken church. Last Tuesday, just five hours after Pope John Paul II appointed him the next archbishop of Boston, Capuchin Franciscan friar Sean Patrick O'Malley looked out across the rows of reporters, directly into the television...

BOSTON, July 3, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Bishop Sean O'Malley, only recently appointed to a Florida diocese, has been placed by Pope John Paul II as the bishop of the Archdiocese of Boston. A Vatican official told Catholic News Service that the move demonstrated both the seriousness of the problems in the Boston diocese - the epicentre of the sexual abuse scandal - and the confidence the Vatican places in Bishop O'Malley. O'Malley, a Capuchian friar, was described by the Vatican official as "a man of great spirituality." Archbishop-elect O'Malley delivered a strong pro-life statement when appointed to the Palm Beach...