Archdiocese blocks Web site critical of its operations

The Globe reports on the dust up between the Archdiocese of Boston and Boston Catholic Insider.

The Globe, naturally, doesn't provide links to either that site or the other two blogs it discusses: Bryan Hehir Exposed and Magisterial Fidelity.

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WBZ was worse

They just said "a blog" and didn't even name it.

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http://bostoncatholicinsider.wordpress.com/

Of course, the Archdiocese's equally ham-handed effort to squash dissent has predictably had precisely the opposite effect: it has drastically expanded the platform enjoyed by the anonymous folks at Boston Catholic Insider. First of all, the Globe story repeats the bloggers' allegations, thereby announcing them to a far larger audience than they had previously received. Further, I can confidently predict that, in light of the Globe story, that once-obscure blog focusing on inside baseball at the Archdiocese will today, and probably for the next several days at least, receive orders of magnitude more traffic than it has ever seen before. If they're smart, they will take advantage of the bump in traffic by restating their grievances and the evidence behind them, which will increase the pressure on the Archdiocese to deal with them.

Actions like those of the Archdiocese always backfire. It's remarkable to me that people haven't figured that out yet.
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But the people at Magisterial

But the people at Magisterial Fidelity are absolute nuts.

Plus they haven't updated their blog in 3 years.

Most of these blogs are run by anonymous people who like to throw punches and hide. They are all afraid to stand up and say it....and give their name.

They act like bullies with a blog.

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