Fr. Walter Cuenin pleads with his former parish to stop agitating for his return and they merrily go on their way, ignoring him. “In an email obtained by the Globe...” (Gee, do you think there’s some collaboration going on here?) Cuenin says that it’s clear he’s not returning to Our Lady Help of Christians in Newton, Mass, and that Archbishop Sean O’Malley has told him so. No duh. Anybody who thought that was going to happen needs his meds increased.
Cuenin says that the “energy” expended on the protests could be better used to keep the community together, but as I’ve said all along, there’s also got to be a part of him that wants them to stop so that the rest of the story, which I’ve posited, doesn’t come out. (I’ve said before that all signs point to there being more to story and if the protests keep up, it will all eventually come out.)
I hope Fr. Cuenin’s e-mail is on the level. He probably really does care for the good of the parishioners, even if his ideas of how to accomplish that aren’t always the best.
My dream: That the new pastor junks ALL of the out-of-control “ministries” of that parish and starts running the place himself. The outcry would be fearsome, but in the end those now driving to Boston to find a decent Mass on Sunday would reclaim their church and the egomaniacs would take their “vibrancy” elsewhere.
My dream: Make it the site of one (of many) Boston Archdiocese Indult Tridentine Mass parishes staffed by the FSSP or ICK.
RC, he led an insurection at another parish so I don’t believe he ‘cares’ for the parish… At least, not in the way a priest typically does.
John and Thomas, I like how you think!
We’ve asked the Archdiocese to invite FSSP or ICR in; I’m told that either community would be willing, but so far the responsible bishop (Bp. Lennon) has declined the suggestion.