Kevin Cullen

Boston

@BostonGlobe columnist. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let’s face it.

Articles

Maybe a US-born pope is just what the Catholic Church needed to reclaim its moral standing after the sexual abuse crisis - The Boston Globe

6 days ago | bostonglobe.com | Kevin Cullen

Maybe because he’s originally from Chicago, like the new pope, Father James Weiss had an insight that few others did. About five hours before Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected pope, I asked Weiss, an associate professor of theology and church history at Boston College, if there was any chance of an American being elected pope. “Yes,” he said: “Robert Prevost.”He thought the chances were pretty remote, but had no doubt that if someone from the US was elected, it would be Prevost.
Danny Ryan was the pope of Savin Hill - The Boston Globe

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Kevin Cullen

If he knew you and liked you, he called you Budzo. And Danny Ryan knew everybody and liked everybody. Everybody was Budzo. Even he was Budzo. If cities are defined by neighborhoods, and neighborhoods are defined by people, then Danny Ryan defined Dorchester, especially the Savin Hill section of Dorchester. A week after they buried the pope of Rome, Danny Ryan, the pope of Savin Hill, died after a brief illness in, of all places, Florida. He was 81.
A trip down memory lane

1 week ago | commercial-news.com | Kevin Cullen

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It’s been a good week for the Constitution

1 week ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Kevin Cullen

Share “The President cannot summarily declare that a foreign nation or government has threatened or perpetrated an invasion or predatory incursion of the United States, followed by the identification of the alien enemies subject to detention or removal,” Rodriguez wrote.
It’s been a good week for the Constitution

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Kevin Cullen

After a few bruising months, it’s been a good week for the Constitution. Two very different judges, in two very different jurisdictions, cited the Constitution in checking the power of a president who is determined to push the boundaries of executive authority.
Pope Francis kept the faith for the poorest among us - The Boston Globe

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Kevin Cullen

It was ironic, and somehow appropriate, that one of Pope Francis’ last audiences was with Vice President JD Vance. Vance, a relatively recent but zealous convert to Roman Catholicism, and the pontiff exchanged pleasantries at the Vatican on Easter Sunday, less than 24 hours before the pope died. If it was all sweetness and light on Easter morning, it wasn’t in February, when Pope Francis made clear his opposition to the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts.
Annex once Danville's finest office building

3 weeks ago | commercial-news.com | Kevin Cullen

A crew is busy demolishing the Courthouse Annex, on the west side of Redden Square. As soon as it’s gone, the main target — the long abandoned, once grand, 12-story Bresee Tower — will come tumbling down. So it seems to be a good time to look back on the Courthouse Annex, which was once downtown Danville’s finest office building. The three upper floors were filled with the offices of lawyers, dentists and real-estate brokers.
In the midst of a messy ice cream divorce, Ben & Jerry’s are sticking to their principles. - The Boston Globe

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Kevin Cullen

In the midst of a messy divorce from its parent company, Unilever, the Vermont-based ice cream maker is following its founding mission to make the world’s best ice cream while making the world a better place. In 2000, 22 years after childhood buddies and dyed-in-the-tie-dye progressives Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield set up their first shop in a Burlington gas station, Unilever forked over a lip-smacking $326 million in cash for Ben & Jerry’s.
Vermont detainee is an avowed Buddhist

4 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Kevin Cullen

When they start locking up Buddhists in Vermont, you know times have changed. The Buddhist is Mohsen Mahdawi, who had a green card and a home in the Green Mountain State. But those meant nothing on Monday when he showed up for what he was told would be a routine appointment in the process to obtain US citizenship.
The next time you feel the urge to verbally abuse an athlete, think about Jarren Duran

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Kevin Cullen

In 1979, I joined a bunch of high school buddies home on college break to take in a Celtics game. It was no problem getting tickets because, at the time, the Celtics stunk. The crowd was sparse, the Garden cavernous. So we snuck down to the loge section, within earshot of the Celtics bench. Marvin Barnes, a Providence College star with a checkered professional career, had joined the Celtics that season.