Author: John Schultz

From the WashTimes Politics Blog.

On the very day of Archbishop Wuerl’s installation, two of Massachusetts’ most pro-choice Catholics — Kerry and the state’s senior U.S. senator, Ted Kennedy — showed up and sat in the VIP section. Archbishop Wuerl shook their hands as he moved toward the altar. I didn’t see whether Kennedy took Communion, but I know Kerry did because I talked with him immediately afterward. He was there, he said, as a longtime friend of the archbishop’s.
Isn’t it odd that two of the Senate’s most liberal Catholics made time in their schedules to be at the installation Mass while their conservative Republican colleague from Pennsylvania, Sen. Rick Santorum, did not?
Santorum, I heard, had to stay close to his office for a vote. All the same, here were two Democratic senators giving the new archbishop notice that they intend to ignore any move to disenfranchise them from the Eucharist. No one could miss the message.
Welcome to Washington, Archbishop.

Good to see Card. O’Malley on the right side of this one.

Multifaith coalition targets O’Malley
In an unusual incidence of religious leaders in Massachusetts publicly criticizing one another, a multifaith coalition of clergy who support same-sex marriage plan to accuse Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley and other Catholic leaders of “religious discrimination” today. … more

“Multifaith” coalition? Is that like Multigrain cereal? With fruits and nuts?

Now you know.

Dell laptop explodes at Japanese conference.
Link. Includes. Photos.

Teresa and I were blest last weekend to attend the ordination of 7 priests in Arlington, VA. Among them was Father Bjorn Lundberg, who sang in my choir seven years ago while his application was being considered. He’ll serve his first assignment at our cathedral. He has been a dear friend to us and will have many happy years of service.
He’s got a wonderful singing voice, and also does an amazing impression of Mother Angelica, the Papal Nuncio, his Rector Fr. Rippy, and our own Bishop Loverde.