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LEAGUE CRITICIZES VATICAN INVITATION TO GOVERNOR
HEALEY AND MAYOR WU
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The Vatican Obelisk and St. Peter’s Basilica are pictured in Vatican City.
The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today criticized the decision of the Holy See to host Bay State Governor Maura Healey and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu at a climate conference sponsored by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
Governor Healey, a partnered lesbian, and Mayor Wu were also received in a private audience by Pope Francis earlier today.
As candidates for office, both Maura Healey, and Michelle Wu were endorsed for election by the Planned Parenthood Advocacy Fund of Massachusetts.
Both officials oppose the Catholic definition of marriage, support unrestricted and publicly funded abortion, and believe so-called gender identity ought to be a protected category in civil rights law.
When she first ran for Massachusetts Attorney General in 2014, Maura Healey vowed to shut down pro-life crisis pregnancy centers in the Commonwealth. In 2022, as Attorney General, Healey issued a Press Release and Consumer Advisory condemning pro-life pregnancy care centers as “deceptive and coercive.”
Among the participants in the Vatican climate summit were two other nominally Catholic elected officials who reject and oppose core Catholic moral teachings: California Governor Gavin Newsom and New York Governor Kathy Hochul.
The Catholic Action League called the Vatican invitation to Healey and Wu—arranged by Boston’s Cardinal Sean O’Malley— “a grave scandal, and a callous betrayal of the faithful Catholics of the pro-life movement.”
Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment: “It is now clear, that in the Archdiocese of Boston, pro-life Catholics are a disfavored and marginalized minority.
The two principal constituencies of Cardinal O’Malley appear to be the socially liberal billionaires of the major donor class, like Obama/Biden bundler Jack Connors, and pro-abortion elected officials like Maura Healey, Marty Walsh and Michelle Wu.
Politicians such as these appear at archdiocesan fundraisers, approve the real estate development deals which keep the Church solvent, and help fund Catholic Charities.
Last July, the Healey Administration awarded an unprecedented one million dollar grant to Catholic Charities of Boston.
Meanwhile, a faithful member of Cardinal O’Malley’s flock, 74 year old Jean Marshall of Marshfield, was sentenced, yesterday, to 15 months in federal prison for a non-violent 2020 sit-in at a DC abortion clinic.
There has been no comment from Cardinal O’Malley on Marshall’s sentencing.”
