More than 600 students and alumni at a Catholic college in Worcester are expressing outrage that the chaplain's office of the school sent out an email message expressing support for Catholic teaching on same-sex marriage.
The group is threatening to withhold donations to the school unless school officials apologize and hire staff members dedicated to making homosexual and transgender students feel welcome on campus.
Pope Francis came out in favor of same-sex civil unions, Cardinal Sean O'Malley came to his defense, and the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts went on the offensive against both of them this week.
O'Malley's statement Thursday supporting the pope amounts to "a defense of the indefensible, compounded by an acute case of institutional and personal amnesia," said C.J. Doyle of the Catholic Action League in a written statement.
