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William D. Lindsey

I just wrote about a recent situation in which watchdog groups drew attention to an egregious misuse of “Catholic” beliefs, with a positive outcome to the protest of watchdog groups: as my posting notes, when Catholic lay leader Austin Ruse recently called for liberal university leaders to be taken out and shot, the group Faithful America petitioned for Monsignor Anthony Frontiero of St. Joseph’s Cathedral in Manchester, New Hampshire, who was on Ruse’s C-FAM board, to resign.

And so he did.

Here’s another recent story which demonstrates that when watchdog groups publicize decisions or actions by religious leaders that contradict core values of a religious group, positive things sometimes happen: last Saturday, retired New York Cardinal Egan was scheduled to preside at a special children’s choir Mass at St. Ignatius Loyola parish in Manhattan. The group Survivors Network for Those Abused by…