Rate for each of the following, how serious you feel these mistakes, breaches of trust, or examples of corruption are that have been propagated by the leadership of the Archdiocese of Boston in the past year.
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| Jim McDonough being reappointed to another 5-year term as Chancellor |
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| Persistent conflicts of interest under Bryan Hehir & Jack Connors (Caritas, seminary real estate, conversion of reconfiguration funds, interlocking boards) |
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| Failure to ever announce results of Campaign for Catholic Schools 2010 campaign |
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| Transfer of Caritas Christi to Cerberus/Steward, $25M sellout clause for abandoning Catholic ethical directives on abortion, and associated deceptive communications |
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| Implementation of Ethicspoint anonymous whistleblower process without a process to go over and above Jim McDonough and the Cardinal |
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| Allowing Jack Connors to remain on Finance Council after multiple conflicts of interest and fund-raising for President Obama revealed |
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| Mary Grassa O’Neill’s $325,000 annual salary |
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| Daughters of St. Paul lay pension fiasco: Archdiocese stonewalling Daughters for 5 years prompting lawsuit, then Cardinal intervenes w/ Superior Gen., contributing to removal of U.S. provincial |
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| 2010 Pastoral Center layoffs of low-paid staff with a long history of faithful service to the archdiocese in favor of keeping high-paid lay executives |
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| “Sham search” for new Secretary of Institutional Advancement and deception to faithful Catholics and the search committee that an “open search” was being undertaken when it was never intended. |
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| Letting vigil parishes stay occupied after all canonical appeals were expired |
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| Publicly saying the 2010 archdiocesan budget was balanced when it really was not |
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| Catholic Schools office hiring 3 associate superintendents in addition to the existing six-figure-salaried associate superintendents, plus Mary Grassa O’Neill |
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| 2010 Catholic Appeal raising $1.5M less than 2009 appeal with Jack Connors’ new “crackerjack” fund-raising team in-place |
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| Cardinal Sean’s continuing abdication of responsibility for leading and governing the diocese |
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| Lay employee pension plan: intimidating past employees into taking less than their accrued pension benefit. |
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| Failing to operate with integrity and good governance, and thus failing to deprive BCI of material to blog about. |
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| Diversion of reconfiguration funds to Jack Connors’ Brockton school project instead of repaying lay pension funds |
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| Finance Council forming a Compensation Committee comprised of business execs earning seven-figure salaries to review the problem of excessive six-figure salaries paid to archdiocesan business execs. |
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| Blocking access to BCI from archdiocesan computers |
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| Listing Holy Trinity Church for sale on Sothebys before any consultation/survey process as was done for churches in vigil |
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