USCCB's new Director of Public Policy an abortion advacate

The Priestly Pugilist ^ | 7/14/07 | Priestly Pugilist

[Chesterbelloc]

My very polite email to Sr. Mary Ann Walsh bounced back to me. She appears to be blocking email.

[Coleus]

her mailbox is probably full.

[nickcarraway]

After they saw Archbishop Levada named to head the CDF, they figured, full-steam ahead.

[nickcarraway]

And conversely, Ms. Saile’s employment with a Catholic group doesn’t prove she buys into their agenda.

[maryz]

LOL! Right — she’s probably just someone with no convictions at all, available to the highest bidder. How reassuring! ;-)

[Balt]

Don’t want to throw cold water on the story, but is there any proof that the woman is pro-abortion? Just because she was a speaker at a liberal conference doesn’t make her so.

Like I said: Another prediction: look for Msgr. Malloy to explain to us that Ms. Saile's speaking engagement with a pro-abortion group doesn't prove she buys into their agenda. Correct. And, if that's the case, it merely proves her completely mind-boggling lack of good judgement. She ought to fit right in at the USCCB.

[Balt]

Maybe itÂ’s coincidence - maybe itÂ’s Providence - maybe itÂ’s just plain weird; but, hereÂ’s a bit of dovetailing - a wing nut, if you will, to link our two previous posts together.
It comes from The Free Library web site, and is apparently a reprint of an article from US Catholic Magazine entitled, “What do you get out of Mass,” authored by Mary Lynn Hendrickson. Of course, your Priestly Pugilist would love to expound on why the title of the article shows that the author has absolutely no concept of what Christian worship is about in general, nor the Mass in particular (it's not about "what we get out of it”); but that would distract from the revelation I want you to notice. The article included responses to a survey including, among others, the following question:

Compared to when I was young, one of the ways I think Mass has changed for the worse is:

Among the many less than lucid and insipid answers given by clue-less people who also have no idea what Christian worship is all about, was this gem:

"We've begun to regress to some pre-Vatican II activities, like singing Latin responses. I don't understand any of it!" Kathy Saile of Phoenix, Arizona.

My, my. What a small world. And it looks like your Priestly Pugilist was wrong. Ms. Saile's appointment as USCCB Director of Domestic Policy is still on the official web site, which means it's worse than I thought.

by Priestly Pugilist

Pope Benedict trying to sell Summorum Pontificum to the American bishops.
This is meant as a joke:

Unfortunately, this isn't:

[maryz]

doesn't prove she buys into their agenda.

I'm sure she's "personally opposed, but . . ." ;-)

[Patriotic1]

I think I am going to start with my own Bishop.

[SuziQ]

it merely proves her completely mind-boggling lack of good judgement. She ought to fit right in at the USCCB.

*snort* I'm afraid you're right. Many of the new Bishops are better than their predecessors, but the staff is likely still as liberal as always, and it is they who run the place, day to day.