ACTION ALERT!

MARCH 23, 2026

Contact: C. J. Doyle
(617) 524-6309
catholicactionleague@gmail.com
www.catholicactionleague.org

URGE PRESIDENT TRUMP TO STOP THE ISRAELI ANNEXATION OF SOUTHERN LEBANON!

Lebanon is the last Christian stronghold in the Middle East. Although it no longer has a Christian majority, it is the home to more than 2.2 million Christians, comprising 32% of the country’s population.

Most Christians are Maronite Catholics, followed by Greek Orthodox, Melkite Catholics, and Armenian Apostolics.

It has the highest percentage of Christians of any Arab country, and it is the only Muslim majority nation in the world where the President of the Republic must, according to the foundational National Pact, be a Catholic.

Lebanon’s Christians are now caught in the crossfire between Israel and the Iranian proxy Hezbollah.

Israeli attacks and evacuation orders have forced the displacement of more than 1.2 million Lebanese, with more than 1,000 killed and more than 2,800 wounded.

Israeli targets have included a Catholic suburb of Beirut, with the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) claiming that Iranian guards were operating in the area.

On March 9th, a Maronite Catholic parish priest, Father Pierre al-Rahi, was killed by an Israeli tank shell, when he entered a home in the Christian village of Qulayaa, to aid the inhabitants after they were struck by Israeli shellfire.

According to the Sovereign Order of Malta, the humanitarian situation in Lebanon is “catastrophic.”

Now, to compound all of this, the third ranking member of the Israeli cabinet, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, earlier today, called for the Israeli annexation of southern Lebanon up to the Litani River.

The area south of the Litani River comprises 8% of Lebanon’s national territory, and was the home—prior to the Israeli evacuation order—of 200,000 Lebanese citizens.

The Israelis are now saying that the displacement of Lebanese civilians may be permanent.

The only person who can stop this illegal seizure of southern Lebanon is the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.

Please contact President Trump, using the White House email contact box, and tell the President that the Christians of Lebanon have suffered enough, without having part of their country stolen and hundreds of thousands of their fellow-citizens driven from their homes.

You may also call and leave a comment at 202-456-1111.

Urge the President to stop this unlawful annexation of southern Lebanon!

Many claim to be followers of Christ, but are indifferent to the fate of Christians in the Holy Land. As Catholics, let us never forget our brothers and sisters under attack in the Middle East.

Thank you.

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 2026

SAINT JOSEPH, PRAY FOR US!

March 19th is the Feast of Saint Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Head of the Holy Family, Confessor, and Patron of the Universal Church.

The Gospel of Saint Matthew tells us that Saint Joseph was “a just man.” The New Testament records no words of Saint Joseph. The Foster Father of Our Savior instructs us and edifies us however, by his example—of profound Faith, humility and resignation, and of perfect obedience to the will of God.

In Quamquam Prulies, his 1889 Encyclical On Devotion To Saint Joseph, Pope Leo XIII reminds us that “...Joseph was the spouse of Mary and that he was reputed the Father of Jesus Christ. From these sources have sprung his dignity, his holiness, his glory.”

The Holy Father emphasizes again that “...Joseph shines among all mankind by the most august dignity, since by divine will, he was the guardian of the Son of God and reputed as His father among men.”

According to Pope Leo “Fathers of families find in Joseph the best personification of paternal solicitude and vigilance; spouses a perfect example of love, of peace, and of conjugal fidelity; virgins at the same time find in him the model and protector of virginal integrity.”

Devotion to Saint Joseph bears a special significance to the contemporary struggle to protect the sanctity of innocent human life.

In 1997, Pope Saint John Paul II commended the life of children not yet born to the protection of Saint Joseph.

Just as Saint Joseph, upon the instruction of an angel, carried the Christ Child, Innocence Himself, to Egypt to escape the murderous wrath of Herod, let us invoke the intercession of Saint Joseph, Patron of the Unborn, to deliver the innocent children of today from the modern day successors of Herod who pursue, with fiendish zeal, the Luciferian obseession to destroy human life in the womb.

Saint Joseph is the Patron Saint of Canada. Here in New England, the Virgin Spouse of the Virgin Mother of God is the Patron Saint of the Archdiocese of Hartford and the Diocese of Manchester.

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The Feast of Saint Joseph is, in accordance with the Code of Canon Law, one of ten holydays of obligation in the Universal Church. It is not however, one of the only six days in the United States when attendance at Mass is required under pain of serious sin.

This is not because of any lack of esteem for the role of Saint Joseph in the economy of the Incarnation.

Rather, it relates to particular historical circumstances, specifically, the economic and cultural conditions faced by Catholic immigrants to this country in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. America then was a laissez faire capitalist society where 72 hour work weeks—12 hour days—were common.

Protestant employers moreover, were usually unsympathetic to Catholic religious practices, and would often dock or fire Catholic workers who showed up late for work on holydays.

As a consequence, Catholic workingmen, like this writer’s grandfather, who emigrated from Galway to Boston in 1906, would, on holydays of obligation, have to rise before 4am so they could attend Mass at 5am, thus ensuring that they would arrive at work on time at 6am.

As a concession, taking into account this hardship, the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore decreed in 1884 that there would be only six holydays of obligation in the United States.

 

THE LITANY OF SAINT JOSEPH
Lord, have mercy on us R. Christ, have mercy on us.	Kyrie, eleison R. Christe, eleison.
Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, hear us. R. Christ, graciously hear us.	Kyrie, eleison. Christe, audi nos. R. Christe, exaudi nos.
God the Father of Heaven, R. have mercy on us.	Pater de cælis, Deus, R. miserere nobis.
God the Son, Redeemer of the world, R. have mercy on us.	Fili, Redemptor mundi, Deus, R. miserere nobis.
God, the Holy Ghost, R. have mercy on us.	Spiritus Sancte, Deus, R. miserere nobis.
Holy Trinity, One God, R. have mercy on us.	Sancta Trinitas, unus Deus, R. miserere nobis.
Holy Mary, R. pray for us.	Sancta Maria, R. ora pro nobis.
Saint Joseph, R. pray for us.	Sancte Joseph, R. ora pro nobis.
Illustrious Scion of David, R. pray for us.	Proles David inclita, R. ora pro nobis.
Light of Patriarchs, R. pray for us.	Lumen Patriarcharum, R. ora pro nobis.
Spouse of the Mother of God, R. pray for us.	Dei Genetricis sponse, R. ora pro nobis.
Chaste guardian of the Virgin, R. pray for us.	Custos pudice Virginis, R. ora pro nobis.
Foster-father of the Son of God, R. pray for us.	Filii Dei nutricie, R. ora pro nobis.
Watchful defender of Christ, R. pray for us.	Christi defensor sedule, R. ora pro nobis.
Head of the Holy Family, R. pray for us.	Almæ Familiæ præses, R. ora pro nobis.
Joseph most just, R. pray for us.	Joseph justissime, R. ora pro nobis.
Joseph most chaste, R. pray for us.	Joseph castissime, R. ora pro nobis.
Joseph most prudent, R. pray for us.	Joseph prudentissime, R. ora pro nobis.
Joseph most valiant, R. pray for us.	Joseph fortissime, R. ora pro nobis.
Joseph most obedient, R. pray for us.	Joseph obeodientissime, R. ora pro nobis.
Joseph most faithful, R. pray for us.	Joseph fidelissime, R. ora pro nobis.
Mirror of patience, R. pray for us.	Speculum patientiæ, R. ora pro nobis.
Lover of poverty, R. pray for us.	Amator paupertatis, R. ora pro nobis.
Model of workmen, R. pray for us.	Exemplar opificum, R. ora pro nobis.
Glory of home life, R. pray for us.	Domesticæ vitæ decus, R. ora pro nobis.
Guardian of virgins, R. pray for us.	Custos virginum, R. ora pro nobis.
Pillar of families, R. pray for us.	Familiarum columen, R. ora pro nobis.
Solace of the afflicted, R. pray for us.	Solatium miserorum, R. ora pro nobis.
Hope of the sick, R. pray for us.	Spes ægrotantium, R. ora pro nobis.
Patron of the dying, R. pray for us.	Patrone morientium, R. ora pro nobis.
Terror of demons, R. pray for us.	Terror dæmonum, R. ora pro nobis.
Protector of Holy Church, R. pray for us.	Protector sanctæ Ecclesiæ, R. ora pro nobis.
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, R. spare us, O Lord.	Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, R. parce nobis, Domine.
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, R. graciously hear us, O Lord.	Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, R. exaudi nobis, Domine.
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, R. have mercy on us.	Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, R. miserere nobis.
He made him lord over His house, R. And the ruler of all His possessions.	Constituit eum dominum domus suæ, R. Et principem omnis possessionis suæ.
Let us pray O God, who in Thine ineffable providence didst vouchsafe to choose blessed Joseph to be the spouse of Thy most holy Mother: grant, we beseech Thee, that we may have him for an intercessor in heaven, whom we venerate as our protector on earth. Who livest and reignest world without end. R. Amen.	Oremus Deus, qui ineffabili providentia beatum Joseph sanctissimæ Gentricis tuæ sponsum eligere dignatus es: præsta, quæsumus; ut, quem protectorem veneramur in terris, intercessorem habere mereamur in cælis: Quis vivis et regnas in sæcula sæculorum. R. Amen

THE MEMORARE OF SAINT JOSEPH

Remember, O most chaste spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who implored thy help and sought thine intercession was left unaided. Full of confidence in thy power, I fly unto thee and beg of thee thy protection. Despise not my humble supplications, O foster-father of the Redeemer, but hear and answer me. Amen.

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IRISH PRO-LIFE USA
NEWS RELEASE

TUESDAY, SAINT PATRICK’S DAY
MARCH 17, 2026

Contact: John Aidan Byrne
Irish Pro-Life USA
(973) 529-4699
jaidanbyrne@optonline.net

PRO-LIFE GROUPS, EXCLUDED FROM NEW YORK’S SAINT PATRICK’S DAY PARADE, RALLY IN PROTEST

NEW YORK—Right to Life groups, excluded from New York City’s Saint Patrick’s Day Parade, rallied in protest today along the parade route, under the leadership of Irish Pro-Life USA.

Pro-Life advocates gathered, peacefully, on Midtown Manhattan sidewalks, holding their banners aloft, to highlight the continued failure of parade organizers to abide by repeated promises to give faithful Catholics, supportive of Church teaching, a presence in the parade.

Eleven years after organizers pledged to permit a pro-life group to march under its own banner, the world’s most famous Saint Patrick’s Day Parade still has not welcomed right to life units to its ranks.

Despite multiple applications and repeated efforts over a decade by various pro-life groups seeking permission to march, none have been successful. In 2015, parade officials said they were amending parade rules to permit pro-life groups to march. The regime of exclusion, however, continued.

While groups faithful to the religion of Saint Patrick are barred from the parade, organizations which reject Catholic morality are welcome.

LGBTQ groups, such as OUT@NBCUniversal, Lavender and the Green Alliance marched last year.

As Dawn Eskew, founder and President of Personhood Education NY, pointed out: “A group that directly attacks the teaching of the Catholic Church is acceptable, but groups that uphold the teaching of the Catholic Church are denied.”

Eskew added “A pro-life group carrying its own banner should be permitted to march in the parade as a matter of priority. It promotes a key message in this Catholic parade as we continue the campaign to restore a culture of life in our city and state.”

John Aidan Byrne, President of Irish Pro-Life USA, issued the following statement:

“This is a disturbing and troubling injustice: Eleven years after parade organizers said they would open the parade to pro-life groups marching under their own banners, we have been sidelined and marginalized, once again.

Each year our pro-life group applies to march under our banner, and we are either ignored or rejected by the parade as if we are a nuisance.

This parade should warmly embrace the best of our Irish and Catholic history, heritage and culture, and be proud to promote pro-life values in the US and in Ireland, our ancestral homeland.

We urge parade leaders to end their appeasement of politicians, special interests and secular culture, and admit to the Saint Patrick’s Day Parade those who adhere to the moral beliefs of Saint Patrick,” said Byrne, an area resident, dual US and Irish citizen, and a native of County Louth, Ireland.

Byrne added that parade organizers had no reluctance welcoming New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, despite his public opposition to Catholic moral principles.

In addition to Personhood Education NY, today’s demonstration is being supported by New York State Right To Life; LIFE Runners; United For Life; and the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts.

“New York State urgently needs to restore a culture of life. Radical pro-abortion laws are not the answer. We must defend the inalienable right to life from the moment of conception until death,” said New York State Right to Life.

“Did I hear that correctly? A pro-life group isn’t allowed in the New York City Saint Patrick’s Day Parade, but a gay rights group is allowed?” asked Doctor Patrick Castle, the founder of LIFE Runners.

“May this un-Christian decision …be corrected.”

Nissy Bandar-Zarif, President of the New York based United for Life, said Saint Patrick would have encouraged Catholics to march proudly as pro-life units in the Saint Patrick’s Day Parade if he came back today.

“Please allow us to unite with the parade to continue Saint Patrick’s work of spreading Catholicism—and the message, choose life,” she implored.

C.J. Doyle, of Boston’s Catholic Action League, stated: “The Catholic Action League is privileged to support the courageous efforts of John Byrne and Irish Pro-Life USA to reform New York’s Saint Patrick’s Day Parade, and recall it to the purpose of its founders—to commemorate the Catholic saint who evangelized Ireland and Christianized the Irish people.

“The feast of Saint Patrick must not be reduced to a mere cultural festival celebrating ethnic pride. It is a Catholic holy day in honor of a Catholic saint.”

The parade stepped off at 11:00am EDT.

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HAPPY SAINT PATRICK’S DAY FROM THE CATHOLIC ACTION LEAGUE!

MONDAY, MARCH 17, 2026

Contact: C. J. Doyle
(617) 524-6309
catholicactionleague@gmail.com

 

Perhaps nowhere else, in what was once Christendom, can an entire nation and its vast diaspora of descendants trace their Catholic Faith and culture — and their hope of eternal salvation — to the evangelism of a single saint. Our debt of gratitude to Saint Patrick is beyond measure.

Saint Patrick (+461) is the Apostle of Ireland and was the first bishop and archbishop of Armagh. He is also the principal patron saint of the Archdiocese of Boston, and one of the two patron saints, after Saint Joseph, of the Diocese of Manchester.

Sent by Pope Saint Celestine I, Patrick, in a single lifetime, transformed the people of Ireland from bondsmen of death dealing Druids to disciples of the Author of Life.

As a consequence, a small island upon whose soil no Roman Legionary ever trod, would help form the character of Christendom by its leadership in the two great civilizational movements of the early Middle Ages—the preservation of the learning of Classical Antiquity, and the evangelization of Europe, known to history as the Conversion of the Barbarians.

The feast of Saint Patrick is not “a municipal festival,” as Judge Hiller B. Zobel erroneously asserted during the Saint Patrick’s Day parade case thirty-one years ago. Nor is it merely a communal celebration of ethnic pride, as one low wattage, nominally Catholic, ex-state senator once tried to tell us.

We commemorate the feast of our patron saint because he brought the Catholic Faith to Ireland, delivering that nation, and us, from the darkness of paganism, and showing us the fountains “that rise in the heart of Our Savior above.”

Only two Catholic organizations in Massachusetts in the last three decades, the Immaculate Heart of Mary School and the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts, have publicly defended the venerable name of our patron saint from sacrilegious exploitation and coarse trivialization by the enemies of Catholicity.

The silence of our bishops, priests, deacons, and religious is a terrible betrayal, which speaks to cowardice, the loss of Faith, the desire for human respect, and the malign influence of effeminacy in the ranks of the Church.

As the contemporary forces of paganism continue their assault against the Christian character of March 17th, and attempt to deform and de-Christianize our feast day, let us never forget that Saint Patrick’s Day is a Catholic holy day in honor of a Catholic Saint.

Sancte Patrice, Ora pro nobis.

O God, You deigned to send Blessed Patrick, Your Confessor and Bishop, to preach Your glory to the Gentiles; grant by his merits and intercession, that those things which You command us to do, we may be enabled to accomplish by Your mercy. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, Who lives and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. Amen.
— Collect of the Feast of Saint Patrick from the Missal and Breviary of Saint Pius V

There are only two writings of Saint Patrick extant. The first is his Confession, while the other is his Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus. The latter bears a prophetic relevance to the modern crisis of abortion.

In it, our patron saint exhorts Catholics to avoid all fraternization with those who participate in the willful murder of the innocent: “Therefore I ask most of all that all the holy and humble of heart should not fawn on such people, nor even share food or drink with them, nor accept their alms, until such time as they make satisfaction to God in severe penance and shedding of tears...” He goes on to warn that “The Most High does not accept the gifts of evildoers.”

When you see our modern priests, prelates, and Catholic schools giving, unlawfully, awards, honors or platforms to politicians who promote the mass killing of the unborn, please remind them of the words of Saint Patrick!

Sadly, the name of our patron saint was misappropriated by partisans of the Culture of Death when they gathered Sunday morning, for the so-called “Saint Patrick’s Day Breakfast” in South Boston. Those enemies of the Cross included Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, Congressman Stephen Lynch, and State Senate President Karen Spilka.

All are in favor of child killing, sodomy, the corruption of minors and the homosexualization of the Saint Patrick’s Day Parade. Healey is now leading the disinformation campaign to demonize pro-life Catholics.

What a surfeit of hypocrisy it must require for all of these apostates to participate in the celebration of a Catholic saint!

Given their contempt for Divine and natural law, it was no surprise that they invited the Boston’s Gay Men’s Chorus to sing for them.

What was surprising was the presence of the Archbishop of Boston among this gathering of wolves.

Once again, we are happy to present the good Sisters of Immaculate Heart of Mary School, who lightheartedly memorialized their departure from the South Boston parade with this melody to the air of “The Leaving of Liverpool” entitled “The Leaving of Boston.”

Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win me, Christ to comfort and restore me. Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ in quiet, Christ in danger, Christ in hearts of all that love me, Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.
From the Breastplate of St Patrick

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NEWS RELEASE

SUNDAY, MARCH 15, 2026

Contact: C. J. Doyle
(617) 524-6309
catholicactionleague@gmail.com
www.catholicactionleague.org

BOSTON’S SAINT PATRICK’S DAY BREAKFAST FEATURED GAY MEN’S CHORUS–AND ARCHBISHOP HENNING

In Boston, the Saint Patrick’s Day Parade is held on the Sunday before March 17th. It is preceded by South Boston’s traditional Saint Patrick’s Day Breakfast, which is hosted by the state senator from that community.

The breakfast—an occasion for sharp political humor—showcases elected officials, labor leaders, Irish musical groups and representatives of the Republic of Ireland.

This morning’s breakfast featured two new participants—the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus and the Most Reverend Richard G. Henning, the Archbishop of Boston.

Following an invocation by Father Joe White, Pastor of Saint Joseph Parish in the city’s West End, State Senator Nick Collins, the master of ceremonies, introduced the Gay Men’s Chorus to sing the National Anthem.

A short time later, Collins introduced Archbishop Henning, who delivered an unconventional interpretation of the Feast of Saint Patrick, claiming that the real significance of Saint Patrick’s Day was the conversion of the saint’s own heart, from rancor towards his Irish kidnappers to a willingness to forgive them in the name of Christian love.

Henning then added “This is what reaching across the aisle means.”

The traditional understanding of the commemoration of the Apostle of Ireland focuses on the deliverance of an entire nation—in the lifetime of a single saint—from the darkness of paganism to the light of the Catholic Faith.

Other participants included Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, a partnered lesbian who has vowed to shut down pro-life pregnancy centers in the state; Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll; and Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley.

Pressley, who called President Donald Trump a “pedophile” during her remarks, just introduced a bicameral resolution to designate March 10th as “Abortion Provider Appreciation Day.”

Also prominently featured was the flip-flopping Congressman Stephen Lynch, who now claims his Catholic Faith compels him to support abortion and contraception, and State Senate President Karen Spilka, who has applauded the passage of the so-called Shield Act.

This law immunizes Bay State abortionists from the legal consequences of shipping deadly Mifepristone to states that have banned abortion.

The benediction was given by Boston City Councilor Miniard Culpepper, a Baptist minister.

Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comments:

“Archbishop Henning will now enjoy the distinction of being the first ordinary in the 218 year history of the Diocese of Boston to share a public platform with a homosexual group.

“It is unfathomable why any Catholic prelate would want to be present at a tawdry, self-serving event by a corrupt, apostate, anti-Christian political class—men and women who have betrayed the Faith of their Baptism—but are willing to expropriate the name of a Catholic saint to promote and prolong their pernicious careers in elective office.

“As a shepherd, he should warn Catholics to avoid this toxic gathering of wolves.

“Nothing has changed since Archbishop Henning replaced Cardinal O’Malley. The embrace of the state’s pro-abortion political establishment by the Archdiocese of Boston continues.

“No one is evangelized. No one repents. Their purpose is not to convert, but to appease, not to save souls, but to make friends.

“Why? Does it help with archdiocesan fundraising? media relations? tax dollars for Catholic Charities? government approval for property development?

“The next time Governor Healey comes to a Catholic Schools Foundation gala, someone should ask Archbishop Henning that question.”

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NEWS RELEASE

SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 2026

Contact: C. J. Doyle
(617) 524-6309
catholicactionleague@gmail.com
www.catholicactionleague.org

HOLY CROSS TO HONOR PRO-ABORTION FORMER GOVERNOR CHARLIE BAKER

The Jesuit administered College of the Holy Cross—New England‘s oldest Catholic institution of higher education—has announced that its 2026 commencement speaker will be former Massachusetts governor Charlie Baker. The college will also confer an honorary degree upon Baker and upon United Way CEO Tim Garvin.

During his eight years as Governor of the Commonwealth (2015-2023), Baker supported legal and publicly funded abortion, the deformity of marriage, and taxpayer supported birth control.

Baker received a standing ovation from the Massachusetts Legislature when, during his 2017 State of the Commonwealth Address, he promised to use state tax dollars to compensate Planned Parenthood for any loss of federal funds.

In that same year, 2017, Baker was hailed by the Planned Parenthood Advocacy Fund for signing into law—without a religious exemption—the ACCESS bill, which mandated no co-pay contraceptive coverage in employer group health insurance plans.

In 2022, Baker was one of the Republican elected officials to sign a letter urging the U.S. Senate to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, and replace it with the Respect for Marriage Act, which would require recognition of same-sex “marriage” by the federal government, and by all state and territorial governments.

Following the Dobbs decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022, Baker signed into law co-called “Shield” legislation, to immunize Bay State abortionists and gender surgeons from legal action by states where abortion and gender mutilation would be prohibited or substantially restricted.

The law also permitted any pharmacist to dispense, over the counter, abortifacient “emergency contraception,” with the Department of Public Health serving as the prescriber.

In its 2004 instruction, Catholics In Political Life, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops stated:

The Catholic community and Catholic institutions should not honor those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles. They should not be given awards, honors or platforms which would suggest support for their actions.

The Catholic Action League called the selection of Baker a “grave scandal, an act of institutional apostasy, and a further degradation of what little remains of the once Catholic identity of Holy Cross.”

Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comments:

“Honoring Charlie Baker is a flagrant violation of Catholics In Political Life, a callous betrayal of the helpless unborn and those faithful Catholics who defend them, and an unconcealed expression of contempt for perennial Catholic teaching about the sanctity of innocent human life from conception to natural death.

“Appallingly, Holy Cross—an institution in an advanced state of de-Christianization—has a long and sordid history of using commencement speakers to advertise its rejection of Divine and natural law.

“Past pro-abortion commencement speakers have included U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-VT), Biden Administration UN Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau and MSNBC host Chris Matthews.

“Just last April, former Secretary of State John Kerry delivered the school‘s annual Hanify-Howland Memorial Lecture.

“In March of 2022, the college had an actual abortionist, Anna Lowell, who has brutally and violently ended the lives of hundreds of unborn children, participate in a panel discussion on women’s health.

“For some conservative Catholics, the appropriate response to this institutional infidelity is to have the local bishop declare that the offenders have forfeited their Catholic identity.

“This, however, is akin to giving the title deeds to the burglars.

“These institutions were built by and for Catholics. A way must be found, somehow, to reclaim them for the Catholic Faith.”

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

MARCH 13, 2026     Published by the Worcester Telegram on March 22nd

The People’s Forum
Telegram & Gazette
100 Front Street, 5th Floor
Worcester, MA 01608-1440
letters@telegram.com

To the Editor:

The decision of the College of the Holy Cross to confer an honorary degree on former Governor Charlie Baker, and invite him to deliver the school’s 2026 commencement address, is a shocking betrayal of the institution’s Catholic identity and Jesuit heritage, (Charlie Baker to give Holy Cross commencement address, March 10, 2026).

As Governor of the Commonwealth, Baker was a proponent of legal and publicly funded abortion. In 2017, he even offered to use state tax dollars to compensate Planned Parenthood for any loss of federal funds.

The Catholic Faith has condemned abortion since the first century, with the Second Vatican Council teaching that “Abortion and infanticide are unspeakable crimes.”

On its website, Holy Cross asserts that “Our ideals are grounded in Jesuit traditions that call us to …seek justice for the marginalized.”

As Mother Teresa of Calcutta reminded us however, the unborn child is the “poorest of the poor, the most unwanted, the most unloved, the most uncared for, and the most rejected.”

Sincerely,

C. J. Doyle
Executive Director
Catholic Action League of Massachusetts
P. O. Box 112
Boston, MA 02131
(617) 524-6309
catholicactionleague@gmail.com

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NEWS ANALYSIS

MONDAY, MARCH 9, 2026

Contact: C. J. Doyle
(617) 524-6309
catholicactionleague@gmail.com
www.catholicactionleague.org

WHY DOES THE CRIME OF SEXUAL ABUSE ONLY BECOME A MORAL PANIC WHEN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS INVOLVED?

There is a new moral panic in the Boston and Providence media markets. It is about already known cases of clerical sexual abuse in the Diocese of Providence from 30 to 75 years ago.

In 2019, the Bishop of Providence, the Most Reverend Thomas Tobin—a prelate much maligned for his orthodox moral teachings--entered into a voluntary agreement with the Rhode Island Attorney General’s office, allowing state officials unprecedented access to all diocesan files on the clerical molestation of minors.

Tobin’s good faith effort at transparency has now been repaid with political grandstanding and media melodrama.

On March 4th, Rhode Island’s Democratic Attorney General, Peter F. Neronha, held a press conference to announce the release of a 288 page report detailing incidents of sexual abuse involving 75 priests and deacons—and 300 victims—between 1950 and 2025.

Neronha began by describing “The sordid and shameful history of child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church,“ which he said occurred in the Diocese of Providence “on an abhorrent, staggering scale.”

After detailing numerous incidents and delivering extended criticisms of the Diocese of Providence, Neronha made the expected recommendations.

He called for more money for victims; the public release of one sided grand jury reports; and an extension of the civil and criminal statutes of limitations so additional lawsuits can be filed and additional prosecutions can be undertaken.

Neronha also demanded the expansion of mandatory reporting laws to include not only known incidents of abuse, but suspicion of abuse or “neglect” by clergy.

In a comprehensive response to the report, accompanied by video message from Bishop Bruce Lewandowski, the Diocese of Providence pointed out that 97% of abuse cases occurred between 1950 and 1997.

The Diocese went on to say that “The Report itself reveals no evidence of recent child sexual abuse by clergy, no credible accusations against those in ministry today, and no instances of the diocese’s failure to meet its legal reporting obligations.”

Many of the incidents mentioned in the report received media attention when they were first revealed, years ago.

The media however, went into full crisis coverage. The Boston Globe ran with no less than seven stories over three days, including a front page report on March 5th.

NBC10 Boston produced three extended stories, one of which described “massive” sexual abuse in the Church of Providence and made the unsupported claim that the real numbers were “much higher.”

Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comments:

“While there is no defending the past practice—common to many institutions—of regarding molesters as mentally ill persons needing treatment, rather than as criminal predators deserving incarceration, the numbers here, while disturbing, are not, as the media would have you believe, overwhelming.

“As I pointed out to NBC10 Boston, there are, today, 519 priests, deacons and religious brothers in the Diocese of Providence.

“Over the course of 75 years, and with many more vocations in the 1950’s and 1960’s, that total number since 1950 is probably in excess of 1,500.

“Those 75 abusers, therefore, represented no more than five percent of the Providence clergy and male religious—a number still far too high, but hardly indicative of massive, systemic institutional corruption.

“One of the report’s own findings was predictable. Although the word homosexual is never mentioned, 80% of the victims were male, with their abuse beginning between the ages of eleven and fourteen.

“Attorney General Neronha’s concern for the protection of children might be more credible if he did not believe that 66 million dead children are not enough.

“Described as a “Champion” of Planned Parenthood, Neronha has sued to continue taxpayer funding of America’s abortion giant.

“Outside of Rhode Island, Neronha is best known as the public official who refused to fire an Assistant AG who, while intoxicated, abused and threatened Newport police officers.

“Prior to becoming state Attorney General, Neronha was Barack Obama’s appointee as U.S. Attorney for the District of Rhode Island.

“In 2023, the newspaper of Boston’s African American community, The Bay State Banner, reported that students in the Boston Public Schools experienced 744 incidents of sexual assault in the 2021-2022 school year alone.

“In that case, there were no front page headlines, demands for resignations, or calls for prosecutions and government investigations.

“There was no daily drum beat of articles, editorials, columns, and op-ed pieces. There were no lead stories on television news or drive time discussions on talk radio.

“The Boston Globe actually downplayed the story, suggesting that the numbers were ‘murky.’

“When the sexual abuse of minors occurs in public schools, it is a statistic—to be questioned. When it occurs in the Catholic Church, it is a moral panic and a public outrage.

“Without diminishing the magnitude of the crime, the double standard is appalling.”

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THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 2026

Contact: C. J. Doyle
(617) 524-6309
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WARREN GODDARD R.I.P.

The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today is mourning the loss of one of its longtime members, Warren E. Goddard, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, who died last Friday, February 27th, on the Feast of Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows. Warren was 96.

Born in Cambridge in 1929 and educated in Cambridge public schools, Warren attended Lowell Teachers College before serving his country as a medic during the Korean War.

While on active duty, he met the love of his life, Yvonne Marie. They were married in 1952.

Following his honorable discharge from the service, he graduated from Lowell Technical Institute in 1957 with a degree in Engineering. That same year, he moved to the Buckeye State to work as a Project Engineer for the BF Goodrich Company in Marion, and later in Akron and Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

In 1967 Warren moved to Connecticut to work for the world’s premier submarine builder—Electric Boat, then part of General Dynamics. As a member of their R & D team, Warren served as a Test Engineer on nuclear submarines at their shipbuilding facility in Groton.

From 1978 until his retirement in 1995, Warren worked as a mechanical engineer on nuclear subs at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in New Hampshire.

A one term state legislator, Warren Goddard represented the 33rd Rockingham District in the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 1995 to 1997.

Many of us remember Warren as a fervent traditional Catholic, a valiant defender of the Faith, and as a resolute champion of the right to life.

He was a founding member of both Connecticut Right To Life and New Hampshire Right To Life, where he served as Board Chairman and Treasurer.

Warren was also an early activist, going back to the 1980’s, with Operation Rescue Boston.

Committed to the public defense of his Faith, Warren’s comments, press statements and letters to the editor could be found in the New Hampshire Union Leader, in much of the Boston, Granite State, and even national media, and in various Catholic publications.

He was, for decades, a supporter of the Saint Benedict Center and the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Richmond, New Hampshire. He was also a lifelong member of the Knights of Columbus.

Warren Goddard was a loving husband and father, a pious Catholic, a patriotic American, a stalwart pro-lifer, a gifted professional and a Christian gentleman. He will be sorely missed.

The Catholic Action League wishes to extend its sincere and heartfelt condolences to Warren’s family on the occasion of their grievous loss.

Warren is survived by two sisters, eleven children, 31 grandchildren, 14 great grandchildren, one great-great grandson, and several nieces and nephews and their families.

Warren was predeceased by his wife of 60 years, Yvonne Marie (Landry) Goddard, his brothers Arthur and Donald Goddard, his sister Marion, his children Peter and Michelle, his granddaughters Rachel and Jillian, and his great-granddaughter Olivia.

Warren will be waked on Friday, March 6, 2026, from 4 pm to 7 pm, at the Farrell Funeral Home, at 684 State Street, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

A Requiem Mass will be celebrated on Saturday, March 7, 2026, at 10 am, in the Immaculate Conception Church, at 9 Summer Street in Portsmouth.

Interment will be at the Calvary Cemetery in Portsmouth, following the Mass.

For those wishing to send Mass cards and spiritual bouquets to Warren’s family, you may mail them to the Goddard Family, 8 Wilson Road, Portsmouth, NH 03801.

Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace. Amen. May his soul, and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.

It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they might be loosed from sins. 2 Maccabees 12:46

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MEMBER ADVISORY

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2026

Contact: C. J. Doyle
(617) 524-6309
catholicactionleague@gmail.com
www.catholicactionleague.org

FATHER TOM DILORENZO R.I.P.

The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today is mourning the loss of Father Tom DiLorenzo, who died, unexpectedly, early this morning, while on a retreat in Florida. He was 79 years old.

A humble and faithful priest with a zeal for souls, Father DiLorenzo was the most fervent champion of the innocent unborn in the Archdiocese of Boston, and suffered for his fidelity to Catholic principles.

Born in East Boston in 1946, Thomas DiLorenzo was ordained to the priesthood in 1979.

In 1984, he began his Catholic radio apostolate, In Season & Out of Season, which could be heard on ten radio stations across the United States, and which, as a podcast, would eventually be seen on YouTube, Spotify, and on cable television networks throughout New England.

For twenty-five years, from 1995 to 2020, Father Tom was the beloved Administrator of Holy Rosary Parish in Winthrop. For the last six years, he has been a Senior Priest in Residence at Saint John the Baptist Parish in Quincy.

In 2005, the nominally Catholic President of the Massachusetts Senate, Robert Travaglini—serving the corporate interests of the powerful biotech industry—introduced legislation which would legalize and subsidize embryonic stem cell research and would open the door to human cloning in the Commonwealth.

The measure was so extreme that even the Bay State’s pro-abortion Governor, Mitt Romney, opposed it.

Father DiLorenzo threw his heart and soul into fighting this demonic measure, going so far as to have his parishioners pray the Rosary outside of Travaglini’s East Boston home.

In response, Senator Travaglini’s wife made the vile insinuation that Father Tom was somehow obsessed with Travaglini’s children.

The Archbishop of Boston, Cardinal Sean O’Malley was appalled—not by Travaglini’s betrayal of the Faith of his Baptism, nor by Mrs. Travaglini’s calumny towards an innocent priest, but by Father DiLorenzo’s determined opposition to the Travaglini’s assault on Divine and natural law.

Cardinal O’Malley—whose preferred method of dealing with apostate Catholic politicians was to give them awards, honors and platforms—ordered the protests to stop, publicly apologised to Travaglini, and instructed Father DiLorenzo to seek counseling from a church approved psychiatrist.

Father DiLorenzo was silenced, the legislation passed over Romney’s veto, and Travaglini resigned to found a corporate lobbying firm which boasted of the politician’s success in bringing embryonic stem cell research to Massachusetts.

Father DiLorenzo was a longtime friend to the Catholic Action League, who was always willing to make his corner of the public airwaves available to us whenever some moral issue arose in the public square.

Father Tom was a good and kind man, a pious Catholic and a dedicated priest with a burning desire to evangelize. It could be said of him that he was, truly, on fire for the Lord. He will be sorely missed.

Funeral arrangements are pending.

Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace. Amen. May his soul, and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.

It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they might be loosed from sins. 2 Maccabees 12:46

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

FEBRUARY 4, 2026   Published by The Boston Globe on February 6th

Letters to the Editor
The Boston Globe
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Boston, MA 02109-2132
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To the Editor,

In her attempt to persuade readers that Don Lemon’s reprehensible conduct during a Minnesota church invasion was protected by the First Amendment, Jill Abramson seems to suggest that the incident was a matter of competing rights. It wasn’t. (Don Lemon’s arrest was wrong, but his reporting raises questions, 2/3/2026).

Most states, including New York, California, Minnesota and Massachusetts, have laws against disturbing an assembly of worship.

Most states, like Massachusetts, have laws prohibiting interference with the constitutional rights of others—including the right to worship. In the Bay State, that offense is now classified as a hate crime.

In Minnesota, the State Constitution is clear: “The right of every man to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience shall never be infringed.”

Freedom of the press is not a grant of immunity to podcasters who trespass, disturb lawful assemblies, and impede others in the exercise of constitutionally protected activities.

The January 18th invasion of Cities Baptist Church in Saint Paul shut down a religious service, terrified children and caused congregants to flee.

It was the sort of crime one would expect in Syria, not America.

Sincerely,

C. J. Doyle
Executive Director
Catholic Action League of Massachusetts
P. O. Box 112
Boston, MA 02131
(617) 524-6309
catholicactionleague@gmail.com

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PRESS STATEMENT

TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 2026

Contact: C. J. Doyle
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BILL FILED IN ARIZONA TO IMPOSE JAIL TIME FOR PRIESTS WHO REFUSE TO VIOLATE THE SEAL OF THE CONFESSIONAL

On January 5th, reporter Matt Lamb from LifeSiteNews, contacted the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts, seeking a comment about a proposed Arizona law which would impose prison sentences and six figure fines on Catholic priests who refused to violate the Seal of the Confessional, in cases of sexual abuse.

In response to questions from Matt Lamb, League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comments:

Matt Lamb: Given that it is similar to a law that was federally enjoined in Washington and has since been revoked, does it seem there is any reasonable chance this would be implemented?

C. J. Doyle: The sanctity of the Seal of the Confessional—known in civil law as the priest-penitent privilege—has been upheld in American law since the New York case of People v. Philips in 1813.

The inevitability of a legal challenge should the Arizona legislation become law, the recent decision by the U.S. District Court in the State of Washington, and the likelihood of intervention by the U.S. Department of Justice, all supported by two centuries of common law and American jurisprudence, suggest that such a statute would not pass constitutional muster.

As the proponents know this, these proposals may be regarded as political posturing more than serious law making.

Matt Lamb: This legislator is joining others in Washington and Montana pushing to revoke the Seal of Confession. Why do you think politicians, particularly Democrats, are targeting the Catholic Church?

C. J. Doyle: It is, certainly, not difficult to ascribe motives to the author of the proposed Arizona law. The sponsor of the anti-Catholic law is State Representative Stacey Travers, the Democratic Minority Whip.

Travers was endorsed by NOW, Emily’s List, Stonewall Democrats and Arizona Equality.

She has co-sponsored legislation to repeal the state’s former 15 week abortion ban; to eliminate abortion reporting requirements; to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment; to erase conscience protections for health care professionals in the provision of contraceptives; to prohibit conversion therapy; to legalize assisted suicide; and to establish same-sex marriage as a right under the Arizona Constitution.

For Travers, and other left-wing Democrats, the Catholic Church is an ideological adversary which must be vilified and discredited at every opportunity.

They do this by exploiting the clerical sex abuse scandal of the past to portray the clergy as callously indifferent to abuse victims. Their methods are cynical, and their motives are malicious and punitive.

Matt Lamb: What should Catholics do to oppose this law?

C. J. Doyle: As reception of the Sacrament of Penance is indispensably necessary for the practice of the Catholic Religion, and as the sanctity of the Confessional is integral to the administration of the sacrament, Catholics must make clear that any effort to violate the seal will be regarded as nothing less than an attempt to criminalize Catholicism, which will be resisted by all appropriate means.

It must also be made known that the only way to enforce such legislation is through entrapment—the sending in of undercover police agents to the confessional to make false confessions.

The opportunities for abuse are rampant. A convicted sex offender could invent a claim that he confessed his sins, and then offer to testify against a priest in order to have his sentence reduced.

Finally, as Professor Jonathan Turley pointed out, a priest’s coerced admission would be useless in a court of law if he did not first give a Miranda warning to the penitent.

C. J. Doyle’s remarks were included in a story published today, January 6th, in LifeSiteNews.

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