Monday, August 23, 2010

Open Letter to Cardinal O'Malley and Archdiocesean Leaders

The Boston Globe covered the blog today in their report: “Archdiocese limits access to critics’ blogs.” If you have not yet read our original post on this topic from late last week, please take a moment to read it for the relevant background.

The Globe story is balanced and accurately portrays the current situation—except for the archdiocese’s spin about their response to this blog. The archdiocese may have invited a conversation with other blogs, but no one from the archdiocese has responded to a single one of our emails. And we do not know what Terry Donilon means by his unsubstantiated comment, “We are concerned about the harm caused…by unfounded claims on the blogs.’’ Our blog has carefully documented everything we have published and have not heard anyone complain that a post here was “unfounded” in two months. (Terry, are these posts about the conflicts of interest in how you and the Chancellor were hired examples of “unfounded claims”?) We will send a message to ask specifically which claims on this blog the archdiocese feels are “unfounded.”

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