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Catholic leader asks why enemy of Church spoke at fund-raising event

Catholic leader asks why enemy of Church spoke at fund-raising event


Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey

Catholic leader asks why enemy of Church spoke at fund-raising event

A Catholic leader in Massachusetts is demanding to know why the state’s liberal governor was allowed to speak at a fund-raising event for Catholic schools despite holding political and personal beliefs that openly oppose Catholic teachings.

Gov. Maura Healey spoke April 11 at the annual gala hosted by the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston for parochial schools in the area. The event raises money for the Catholic Schools Foundation. 

C.J. Doyle, who leads Catholic Action League of Massachusetts, tells AFN allowing Gov. Healey to speak is an insult to Catholics, beginning with the stated purpose of the event.

“Healey is an opponent,” he says, “of vouchers and tuition tax credits for private and parochial schools.”

Healey, a former attorney general, is serving her first term as Massachusetts governor. Among her problems with Catholic teachings, she is an open lesbian, a vocal supporter of abortion, and an opponent of pro-life pregnancy centers.

“Healey actually appointed her former lesbian paramour to the state’s highest court, the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth, which by the way is the oldest court in the United States,” Doyle advises.

That former lesbian lover is Gabrielle Wolohojian, who was appointed in February to an open seat on the state’s highest court.

Gov. Healey claimed at the time there is “no one more qualified or more well prepared” for a seat on the state court than her former girlfriend.