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I'm reading a book entitled The Faithful Departed: The Collapse of Boston's Catholic Culture by Phillip Lawler and there's one chapter where he's very critical of forced busing.
He described how Cardinal Medeiros, rather than supporting his constituents in South Boston in opposing the busing of their kids to schools in a black district (that happened to be atrocious and dangerous), urged Catholics to support the measure and at the behest of city officials, refused to increase the number of students admitted to parochial schools in Boston (as a means of escaping forced busing).
(He also apparently had a church locked some demonstrators attacked by police could not take shelter there)
What if he opposed the forced busing and allowed increased enrollment in the parochial schools?
Lawler blames busing in part for the disintegration of traditional Catholic culture in Boston--many residents moved elsewhere to escape it. He said Medeiros betrayed his constituents and weakened the Catholic community overall.