MASSACHUSETTS
Wicked Local Randolph

By Lane Lambert
The Patriot Ledger

Posted Mar. 18, 2015

RANDOLPH – The South Shore Chamber of Commerce rarely gets homilies, but the business group got one Wednesday from Cardinal Sean O’Malley.

Speaking to a full room at the Chamber’s luncheon at Lantana, the cardinal said “we are here to take care of each other.”

He also said the church is “a field hospital” whose primary mission is to tend to “the poor and downtrodden.” …

He outlined the bleak situation he faced when arrived, in the wake of a clergy sex abuse scandal that forced his predecessor, Cardinal Bernard Law, to resign.

“The Archdiocese was in free fall,” he said. “We had a thousand (sex abuse) lawsuits. We owed the Knights of Columbus millions. Our Catholic hospitals were losing millions.”

“Welcome to Boston,” he quipped.

He said the Archdiocese’s finances and programs are…