@seanie:

Right, one of the councilors of the pope (card. Marx) is involved in the production of pornography (through the publisher "Weltbild" who belongs to him and to other German bishops).

Further: He distributes the abortive morning-after pill in his "Catholic" hospitals.

Perhaps the Pope has chosen this man as advocatus diaboli?

Comment from a Boston Catholic resident who is familiar with Card. O'Malley:

I don't know anything about the others (except Pell, who IIRC is quite good), but I can't imagine why he'd select O'Malley, unless he's planning to dismantle the Church in orderly if ham-handed fashion.

From Boston Catholic Insider:

In Boston, for nearly 3 years we have been documenting the ongoing problems of:
-- Nearly $4M annually in excessive six-figure salaries paid to lay executives
-- Moving around of funds from originally designated purposes to someplace else
-- Skyrocketing administrative expenses
-- Cronyism in hiring
-- Deception in communications and in policy making
-- Retention of Finance Council members and key advisers to the Cardinal who work against Catholic Church teachings
-- Routine violations of the archdiocesan Code of Conduct
-- Incompetence by high paid cabinet members
-- Draining of capital reserves to pay operating expenses
-- $140M in unpaid debt, with no plan to be able to repay the debt
-- 34% decline in Mass attendance between 2000 and 2012
-- 40-50% of parishes operating in the red
-- Abdication of leadership by Cardinal O’Malley and a failure by him to teach through his actions and words.

Other than those minor matters, everything is just great in Boston.

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Even orthodoxy is not much of a concern to O'Malley; VOTF operates at a favored pastor's paraish. One of O'Malley's closest advisors is Fr. Hehir! Jack Connors, the advertising guy is active in Catholic education -- while being an enthusiastic bundler for Obama.

You'll note that the Boston archdiocese is not a party to any of the suits against HHS over the mandate; an archdiocesan spokesman said, when asked, that since others were suing, they didn't have to (though, as I understand it, the suits are being handled pro bono).

Note too that O'Malley gets absolutely fawning coverage from the very left-wing Boston media. They allow him the occasional pro forma anti-abortion and anti-gay marriage remark (few and far between and not backed up with action), but they know he won't do anything to criticize or embarrass the Dems -- recall the Ted Kennedy dog-and-pony show funeral.