Where do Worcester Catholics Stand?

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Former Boston Mayor and US Ambassador to the Vatican Ray Flynn in many ways took front and center stage at the anti-gay marriage rally at City Hall. He’s the high profile face and name used to adorn much of the Catholic “save marriage” web spaces. He’s featured prominently with Larry Cirignano and Bishop O’Malley on Cirignano’s own web page.

But while Cirignano’s Republican branded Catholicism took center stage in front of Worcester City Hall, the Worcester Catholic “establishment” appears to have avoided what has now turned into a front page story because of the Cirignano’s assault.

None of Worcester’s well known Catholic faces attended the “Rally for Democracy” and there were not any parish priests or sisters in the audience.

Present though among this mix was a reporter/photographer from the Catholic Free Press. He interviewed and recorded Sarah Loy after she gave her statement to Worcester police officers. When he finished interviewing Ms Loy, I asked him if he thought the Catholic Free Press’s Editor Margaret Russell would use the interview. He said he didn’t know, but she’s the one that had assigned coverage of the rally.

So the “mainstream” Catholic media was present, has photographs and an interview regarding the assault, the question is will the Free Press and Diocese further distance itself from Larry Cirignano by publishing the full story or will it kill the story?

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