bureaucracy that attempts to short circuit the U.S. Church's normal
system of authority and replace it with a centralized Tower of
Bureaucratic Babble that falsely speaks in the name of all the
bishops. Hardly surprising to learn that it is infested with the
likes of lesbian activist Mary Kay Henry. It is high time the
disgraceful USCCB apparat was razed to the ground and its assets
distributed to the poor.
http://www.splendoroftruth.com/curtjester/archives/2009/12/strange-bedfell-1.php
Washington D.C., Dec 4, 2009 / 10:43 pm (CNA).- Conservative blogs
were buzzing on Friday with the discovery that a member of the USCCB's
Subcommittee on Catholic Health Care is an active homosexual and gay
rights activist. However, though Mary Kay Henry's bio states that she
is a labor adviser to the U.S. bishops, the USCCB communications
director told CNA "she is not a consultant."
Henry, the international executive vice president for the Service
Employees International Union (SEIU) was recently named one of the
nation's "Top 25 Women in Healthcare" for 2009 by Modern Healthcare.
Her biography at the SEIU website explains that "Her faith and values
as a practicing Roman Catholic led her to pursue union organizing as a
vocation."
"Mary Kay is also active in the fight for immigration reform and
gay and lesbian rights. She is a founding member of SEIU's gay and
lesbian Lavender Caucus," her description continues.
According to SEIU, "The Lavender Caucus is the
Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/ Transgender (L/G/B/T) Caucus of the Service
Employees International Union whose purpose is to facilitate open and
respectful communication between the L/G/B/T community and the labor
movement."
The last line of Henry's SEIU bio reads, "She and her partner,
Paula Macchello, have been together for 20 years."
Henry is listed on the USCCB website as a member of the
Subcommittee on Justice, Peace, and Human Development who helped
produce the working paper, "A Fair and Just Workplace: Principles and
Practices for Catholic Health Care."
ModernHealthCare.com also mentions that Henry is a labor adviser
to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Catholic Health Care &
Work Subcommittee.
However, in an email asking to confirm Henry's advisory role at
the USCCB, Sister Mary Ann Walsh, the conference media director simply
told CNA, "She is not a consultant."
CNA spoke with another woman in the Justice, Peace and Human
Development office at the USCCB who said a press release on the topic
would be available on Friday afternoon.
But by Friday night, no press release had been posted on the
USCCB's website.
Similarly, a call from CNA to Henry was not returned.
So if not a consultant exactly what is her capacity within the USCCB?
Seems once more like bureaucratic double-speak. She has worked on
multiple sub-committees which submitted recommendations which were
accepted within the USCCB. So maybe not technically used as an
consultant but it is obvious her opinions were sought after. Or are we
to believe her job in these subcommittees were to make coffee?
This is just more effects of the relationships of staff at the USCCB
and left leaning organizations and unions. This relationship has
always turned up strange bedfellows. The USCCB has continuously sought
advice from Catholics less than faithful to the Church. When the
National Review Board in response to priestly abuse was established
they included a couple of problematic Catholics including Bob Bennett
the pro-abortion lawyer who worked for Bill Clinton.
A couple of months ago the coalition "So We Might See" which the
Office of Communications of the USCCB belongs to issued a petition to
investigate Rush Limbaugh. The USCCB later denied supporting the
petition of the group they still belong to.
Plus with the scandals within CCHD it just goes to show that the
bureaucracy within the staff of the USCCB has been heavily compromised
in some departments. Light though will continue to shine on these
problems and the rapid dissemination of such information will help to
some degree reform this.
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