Maura Healey, the 73rd governor of Massachusetts, the first woman and first open lesbian to be elected to that office, served as that state’s Attorney General from 2015 to 2023. Healey considers herself a devout Catholic despite being ardently pro-choice, and despite her recent executive order legalizing abortion in Massachusetts up to the ninth month of pregnancy.
In interviews, Healey talks about her devout Irish Catholic mother, Tracy Healey, who attends daily Mass. Her mother, of course, was raised in the pre-Vatican II Church, when being Catholic had a far more solid definition than it does today. After Vatican II, many Catholics like Maura Healey devolved into cafeteria Catholics, ignoring Church doctrine and essentially subscribing to the notion that individual conscience was every person’s “Holy See.” They became cultural Catholics or, as Satanist Aleister Crowley would say, “Love God and Do What Thou Wilt.”
I had not known prior to the Massachusetts executive order that Healey was a lesbian. (Note: When I lived in Boston at age 20, a frantic, stranded young lesbian — a dead ringer for Joan Baez — asked if she could crash in my apartment. I didn’t hesitate for a second but invited her in and bought us both breakfast in the morning.) Now, a major part of Healey’s gubernatorial campaign platform was women’s rights, reproductive rights, something you’d expect of a feminist, but most especially from a lesbian who has always been a lesbian and who has never, as far as I know, experienced the ethos of motherhood, which would include the birth of a baby.
Her Lieutenant Governor, Kim Driscoll, is described as having no religion but she was once the mayor of Salem, Massachusetts, site of the infamous 1692 witch trials. Driscoll was Salem’s mayor from 2006 to 2023. While mayor, she advocated for the official exoneration of Elizabeth Johnson Jr., the last remaining Salem conviction from the witch trials.
“As a Catholic, I think about what we were taught about making sure that we look after those around us — that we pay particular attention to those who are the most vulnerable among us,” Healey told Politico in 2024.
By “vulnerable,” she meant people born in poverty, not fully developed babies about to be aborted at nine months.
She further amplifies her delusions:
“It’s true that I’ve taken very strong positions when it comes to standing up for LGBTQ+ equality, to standing up for women’s access to reproductive health care, to supporting abortion rights in this country, and I believe very strongly in all of those. To me, it doesn’t make me any less of a Catholic or detract from my relationship to my faith.”
On the surface, what we have here is a kind of ruling Massachusetts matriarchy — or witchcraft.
At the signing of the new abortion killing bill, Healey was surrounded by cheering young women, some in dresses who looked fairly wholesome (no tattoos, nose rings, or blue hair). As several social media posts noted, “These happy women were cheering and applauding as if they had won the lottery.” Indeed. The perverse picture of the happy women went viral. I couldn’t help thinking that here was a genuine witches’ sabbath, a resurrection of the demonic and the spirit of Salem, but in a new form.
Massachusetts now joins Alaska, Colorado, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon and Vermont in removing gestational age limits on abortion, along with the District of Columbia.
Under the [Massachusetts] Prioritizing Patient Access to Care Act, health care personnel will have greater discretion in determining whether to perform an abortion later in pregnancy, without facing legal penalties under the state’s previous restrictions.
SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser condemned Governor Healey’s executive order, stating that late-term abortions can involve dismemberment of the fetus.
Dannenfelser stated,
“It should shock the conscience that tens of thousands of unborn Americans are barbarically dismembered limb by limb and torn apart every single year. Sadly, that number will only increase with Gov. Healey’s approval of the Abortion Up Until Birth Bill.”
Then Dannenfelser let the cat out of the bag:
“The GOP must abandon the ‘leave it to the states’ position – a stance that permits egregious late-term abortion laws like this one – and advance national protections for unborn children.”
Healey’s executive order certainly opens the possibility for this to happen. As we have seen since the governor’s actions, American Catholics are demanding the governor be excommunicated or at least be barred from receiving Holy Communion. The Archbishop of Boston, Richard Henning, called Healey’s action, “A grave offense against the sanctity and dignity of every person.” Bishop Robert Barron also spoke out against the governor’s actions.
Yet nothing will happen to Healey if the call for excommunication, or some other penalty, is heard from only a few bishops. There needs to be a united front among US bishops, a coming together on a grand scale to address this massive fall from grace.
Will it happen? It’s doubtful. We must not forget that in 2024, Healey was invited to the Vatican to participate in a climate change summit, during which she met Pope Francis and was given a rosary.
A late-term abortion rosary you’ll likely never see at a Planned Parenthood protest.