….buttressing up to fight the Cardinal".
Margery Eagan was on
her Saturday morning talk radio program interviewing Mr. Jim Post, president of
"Voice of the Faithful"
with
some revealing declarations of her own:
"He
(Cardinal Law) has lost his moral authority.
Why
should anyone worry about alienating him?"
The record,
however, will show that Ms. Eagan had no concern about alienating the Cardinal
long before he supposedly had "lost his moral authority".
The following is a letter from C.J.
Doyle of the Catholic
League
sent November of 2000 to the BOSTON HERALD in response
to a column of Ms. Eagan appearing in that newspaper:
"Margery Eagan's latest column on
the Catholic Church is characterized by hyperbole, appeals to emotion over reason,
and ad hominem attacks on Cardinal Law ("Rule-obsessed cardinal evicts
Christ like nun", 11/2/2000). In this case of a feminist nun justly
removed for usurping the role of a priest, Eagan's anger also indicates bitter
resentment over a failed revolution. Eagan's fellow travelers in Women-Church
may have actually believed that they would force Catholicism to abandon its
2000 year tradition of a male priesthood. . .
C.J.Doyle
That Ms. Egan was
more than just an interviewer but is actually a
major
player in all that is unfolding here in Boston can be seen from
one
of her remarks:
"While WE are buttressing up to
fight the Cardinal".
Mr. Post must agree with Ms. Eagan as he did not halt her
tiraid.
There were two callers to the talk
show. Tom White, a longtime
Catholic activist from Boston emphasized that the Cardinal has on numerous
occasions expressed in a humble way his heartfelt apology for all that has
happened and particularly for his own failures in this terrible tragedy.
Post accused Tom White of being dishonest for not giving his name and making false statements.
Tom’s
name was given at the beginning of the segment by Ms. Eagan .
For the record we
reproduce another even earlier letter by Mr.
Doyle
to the same paper regarding the same newspaper columnist / talk
show host:
14
March 2000
To
the Editor:
The extremism of
Margery Eagan's views on Catholicism are apparent in her column touting the
pro-abortion front group, Catholics For Free Choice, as a legitimate Catholic organization
(Flash to pols: Catholics don't need
defending,3/7/2000).CFFC, whose executive director, Frances Kissling, is
an excommunicated former abortion
clinic operator, has a history of vicious personal attacks on Pope John Paul II, and is currently engaged in a campaign to
expel the Vatican from the United Nations. Its funding sources have included
contraceptive manufacturers and Hugh Hefner's Playboy Foundation.
Promoting a hate
group is a new low, even for Margery Eagan, whose bigoted hostility to the Catholic Church
is well known. What is more
disturbing, however, is her willingness to mislead Herald readers by implying
that a radical fringe organization of apostates is Catholic.
Sincerely,
C.
J. Doyle
The
following is a letter to the editor of the Boston Herald from the Catholic
Action League of Massachusetts in response to a Margery Eagan column which
likened the Catholic Church to the Ku Klux Klan.
22
November 2002 The Boston Herald
To
the Editor:
Margery Eagan’s odious attempt to
link the Catholic hierarchy to the Ku Klux Klan reminds us of what we already
know, that her column has become a sewer of bigotry masquerading as journalism
(Parishioners forced to grapple with their shaken faith, 11/14/2002). Such a
comparison is nothing less than the moral equivalent of painting a swastika on
the door of a synagogue.
Eagan has become a sort of
anti-Catholic fundamentalist, willing to repeat any lie, believe any slander,
or make any accusation to demonize the institution she despises. In equating
the Church to the Klan, Eagan compounds prejudice with hypocrisy. In her column
of January 1, 1995 (Cardinal Law’s appeal was too little, too late),
Eagan describes pro-life rhetoric as incendiary and suggests it was responsible
for the shooting spree of John Salvi. Now, if an act of violence is committed
against a Catholic Church which has been likened to the Ku Klux Klan, will
Margery Eagan take responsibility for inciting a hate crime?
Sincerely,
C. J. Doyle , Executive Director
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