Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York takes a scathing look at anti-Catholicism in this country, specifically in the pages of The New York Times, in a post on his new blog The Gospel in the Digital Age. The column was originally submitted to and rejected by the Times.
Read his column HERE.
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I am just finishing an excellent book on the same topic. It is tiled "Secular Sabotage" and is by Bill Donohue of the Catholic Civil Rights League. The examples of the anti-Catholic sewage flowing through our society that he gives are nauseating. But I know he is not exaggerating because I have followed the news closely for years and I know his examples are noy blown out of proportion.
Hmmm, on the first bullet point, the good Archbishop is producing nothing but baked wind. He's comparing one story about one year of one community of a city with the press-treatment of the proven behavior of the majority of bishops for the last 60 years, and he doesn't even get that right. The article clearly states that there were 26 arrests this year, not the "forty cases of such abuse" that he claims. According to the story, there are 40 people willing to testify, which means the orthodox community is obviously not using the same legal teams as our sweet mother, The Church.
Additionally, he implies the Times was behaving in a persecutory manner toward the church regarding a "tiny minority of priests." This demonstrates that, Once Again, we have a Bishop willing to only tell a tiny, and conveniently self-serving fraction of the truth about the scandal by claiming it was about child-molesting priests and not the majority of Bishops who were willing to sacrifice an indefinite number of other people's children as long as they didn't have to do their damned jobs. Golly. I hope I have that kind of integrity someday.
Now, to his credit, he doesn't accuse the orthodox community of conducting an ongoing campaign of lies, willful obstruction of justice, or legally attacking victims to intimidate them, or using spiritual authority to silence them...but that would raise such uncomfortable questions about the Bishops long-standing behavior of giving only lip-service to justice while behaving like overzealous mafiosi, now wouldn't it? Quelle Horror! We want to distance ourselves from those kinds of things as quickly as possible.
The second bullet is iffy, and 3 and 4 are pretty much on his side. Why would he lead with the deception?
I suppose he can claim he’s concerned with being “truthy” rather than “accurate” or “correct” or “honest” or “virtuous.” Then you read the disclaimer, in image form, on the right: “…The Archdiocese of New York is not responsible for the accuracy of any of the information supplied in the blog.” If questioned about anything he’s said or done, it sounds like Dolan’s going to be just like most other Bishops: he won’t be able to recall.
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