More Baloney
January 30, 1992
Monsignor Murphy remains intransigent while using flowery language to cover his position. Note that Monsignor believes that educational “experts” make the decisions, not the parents – who, by God, have been given the sacramental grace to raise the child.
Mrs. Edward Davis Grayson
1705 Emerson Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55403
Dear Alice:
Thank you for your note of January 24th. I appreciate your keeping me informed. I think you and I are not at all in disagreement about the virtues of purity and chastity, the importance of passing these virtues on and influencing young people on the best ways to live their lives in a chaste and wholesome way. I do understand what you are trying to say. I do agree with you about the importance of all of this. I simply at this time am not convinced of some specific positions you have taken, vis a vis the curriculum in the Catholic Schools of the Archdiocese. That does not mean that there are not problems to be faced and to be overcome. But I repeat I have confidence in the people who have been charged by the Archbishop to do this work.
With my prayers and best wishes for you and Ed, I am,
In Christ,
Bill
Rev. Monsignor William Murphy
Secretary for community Relations
Table of Contents
- Oxymoron Introduction: Crocodile Tears – Are the Bishops Really Sorry
- Summary of Church Teachings in Oxymoron
- Oxymoron Critiques Submitted to Cardinal Law
- The Complete Letters of Alice Grayson to Cardinal Law
- First Review by Alice Grayson to Cardinal Law
- July 1989 – Cardinal Gagnon calls the “New Creation Series” morally offensive.
- August 1989 – I Request Help from Cardinal Ratzinger
- Fall 1990 – Asking for Help Again
- 1988 – My review of “Understanding of Sex and Sexuality” by Alice A. Grayson
- February 1991 – Address to the Belmont School Committee
- Winter 1990 – Spring 1991, Critique of Sex Education Guidelines
- June 24, 1991 – Comprehensive Letter to Cardinal Law
- Spring 1991 – Letters to Rome, Copies to Cardinal Law
- July 12, 1991 – Cardinal Law replies to my letter of June 24th and promises action.
- August 12, 1991 – Cardinal Law’s action
- September 11, 1991 – I felt betrayed by Monsignor Murphy
- December 6, 1991 – Monsignor Murphy washes his hands.
- January 1992 – The buck stops here!
- January 24, 1992 – I submitted an alternative suggestion to Cardinal
- January 30, 1992 – More Baloney
- February 4, 1992 – Cardinal Law must have felt uneasy.
- Spring 1992 – An abbreviated Answer
- Spring 1992 – The mysterious letter of Bishop Riley
- Spring 1992 – James Likoudis
- February 1993 – Catholic Classroom Sex Education is an Oxymoron
- March 9, 1993 – The Archdioscean Newspaper
- April 7, 1992 – My second letter to The Pilot
- April 7, 1993 – No! No! No!
- September 2, 1993 – Cardinal Law’s Action in Resolving Oxymoron
- September 27, 1993 – Murphy
- March 8, 1994 – Cardinal Law’s Reply to Oxymoron
- May 4, 1994 – My Challenge to Cardinal Law
- May 4, 1994 – An analysis of Cardinal Law’s Response
- May 4, 1994 – Complaint to Pope John Paul II.
- August 1994 – Dr. Gerald Benitz writes to Cardinal Law
- August 24, 1994 – Msgr. William Murphy, Vicar General of the Boston Archdiocese
- February 23, 1995 – Observation of the persistence in sex education
- March 14, 1995 – Monsignor Murphy asks me to quit writing the Archdiocese
- April 4, 1995 – I quit writing the Archdiocese
- 1998 – The last communication with Cardinal Law
- June 27, 2004 – The current battle for the children