Don’t rail against the evil, Archbishop, there’s not enough votesto pass it.
Don’t waste money fighting against evil.
How hard could it have been to set the tone in all their churches about this during this time period. They run the dicoeses. They could have done something for free, just sent statements out to be read, if the priests couldn’t be trusted to do a sermon.
I’m sorry but Dolan is a smart guy. To somehow claim he was totally duped by secular politicians saying don’t worry, is passing the blame for not having a hard response to this.
Since when do you not fight something of this magnitude this horrible just to save a few bucks?
Actually, the misinformation came from their lobbyists.
Dolan was one of the two who did fight against it. He’s making excuses for the other bishops, who did nothing. What he is saying is that they were blindsided. But what he knows is that most of them really didn’t care.
However, he doesn’t want to give the impression that this is OK with the Church...because it’s not and they all know it. So he makes it sound like they were ambushed while skipping down the pathway.
Politically, he probably has to do this; if the Archbishop of New York attacked people such as th bishops of Rochester, Albany and a host of smaller dioceses, the NY Times and the entire liberal press, including the liberal Catholic press, would descend upon his head.
The fact is that many of these bishops are retiring within the next couple of years (a lot of them are the bad appointments of Marcel Jadot or Pio Laghi, bad by our standards but good by the standards of the raving left) and I think the next generation is going to be a lot better.
Edmund Burke