A last vestige of 19th-century anti-Catholic bigotryRaymond Flynn and Jamie Gass
"(T)he Government of the United States ... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance," President George Washington wrote in 1790. There's no time like St. Patrick's Day to reflect on ...
The discriminatory history of anti-school choice amendments Raymond Flynn and Jamie Gass
''Man proposes and God disposes," begins the best-selling 1885 "Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant." "There are but few important events in the affairs of men," he continues, "brought about by their ...
USCCB meeting: What just happened, and what might happen next?JD Flynn
Baltimore, Md., Nov 12, 2018 CNA.- During a holy hour Monday morning, two survivors of clerical sexual abuse spoke to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops about their experiences, and their hopes for ...
Shortchanging Catholic school students on special education services Raymond Flynn and Father Tom Olson
As if it's not bad enough that the Massachusetts Constitution still includes amendments rooted in the anti-Catholic bigotry of the 19th century, we now learn that the state Department of Elementary and ...
Good deeds go on all yearRaymond Flynn
Walking into the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in the South End of Boston to attend the annual noon time Mass on St. Patrick's Day with Mayor Marty Walsh and my wife Kathy, we were introduced to a group ...
The forgotten Americans Raymond Flynn
The past week, I spoke at four outstanding Catholic High Schools in Massachusetts about the importance of Catholic education, with parents, clergy and students. It was so good to hear many positive stories ...
'Big Sacrifices, Big Dreams' -- telling the story of nativist laws that limit school choiceRaymond Flynn and Jamie Gass
''People are consumed. They lust after the presidency," historian Richard Norton Smith commented about James G. Blaine of Maine and the election of 1884. "It's a distorting, warping malignancy that they ...
Supporting signature drives on church property Ray Flynn
As I learned as a young boy growing up in South Boston, life is about God, family and country. I certainly heard that at Catholic Memorial School in West Roxbury the other day listening to the students. ...
