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John A. Monaco @johnamonaco - Maura Healey represents some of the worst tendencies of contemporary Catholicism.
She's of Irish lineage, raised in New England, attended elite educational institutions, claims to be Catholic despite her sodomitical union to another woman. When the Bishop of Worcester ordered a Jesuit middle school to stop flying Black Lives Matter and Pride flags, she criticized him, saying that "inclusion" is at the heart of Catholic teaching. In 2024, she traveled to Rome to speak at a Vatican climate summit hosted by the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences, and personally met with Pope Francis.
The "Catholicism" of Maura Healey is precisely the "beige Catholicism" that @BishopBarron criticizes. These are baptized and confirmed Catholics who reduce Catholic doctrine to "just be a good person", despite not even being able to do that (good persons don't typically massacre the unborn). Maura Healey's Catholicism takes the "welcome the migrant" and "protect the climate" parts seriously, while simply rejecting the "don't murder the unborn", "don't euthanize the elderly", "don't trans your kids" parts of it.
My problem isn't necessarily with her. Of course, she is extremely wrong and on the path to perdition. But Healey is a byproduct of DECADES of decadent malformation, poor preaching, and shoddy witness to the Catholic faith by a number of prelates and priests who are too scared to become martyrs for the sake of the Gospel of Life. Healey's views are heinous, but in any other century, she would be univocally condemned, shamed, exiled, and excommunicated.
This is why I believe there is a crisis in the Church. Some of the most prominent voices in Catholicism are all too eager to endorse Healey's anemic version of Catholicism. Sure, they will view the abortion stuff as bad, but figure that she makes up for it in other areas (typically the areas progressives like to champion; climate, immigration, DEI, etc.)
The best thing the bishops of Massachusetts could do, save from a formal excommunication of the governor, is to call for a week of prayer, fasting, and abstinence for the crimes against humanity committed by their so-called "Catholic" governor.
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Video: Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signs the bill for abortions up to birth as Democrats celebrate.
https://x.com/johnamonaco/status/2086987496035160561

Josh Hawley @HawleyMO - Video: America is free men and women refusing to be ruled by promises that they never consented to.
https://x.com/HawleyMO/status/2087278989786108128

Karoline Leavitt @PressSec - Treasury releases five-step guidance for employers to make contributions to Trump Accounts
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/4682437/treasury-trump-accounts-employers-five-step-guidance/