Boston, Mass., May 3, 2004 / 22:00 pm
Despite the recent controversy in the press raised by Archbishop Sean O’Malley’s comments about feminism during Holy Week, the archbishop of Boston plans to visit Regis College May 15. Regis College is the only Catholic women’s college in the archdiocese.
Mary Jane England, president of Regis College, told the Boston Globe that a number of the alumnae were distressed at the archbishop's reference to feminism, and his decision to exclude women from having their feet washed on Holy Thursday.
But England said that she viewed the controversy as a distraction and that she was glad the bishop explained his position in his column in the latest issue of the diocesan paper, The Pilot.
“It can happen sometimes that you place words too close to one another, and they all sound like one thing, and I gather he had not intended for that to occur,” she was quoted as saying.