Posted on 03/21/2015 11:56:55 AM PDT by ebb tide
Video evidence released Friday indicates that New York City's Cardinal Timothy Dolan may have ordered the removal of reporters who dared to criticize him during a press rally at the city's famous St. Patrick's Day parade held last Tuesday.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York became persona non grata among faithful Catholics last September when he supported the St. Patrick's Day parade committee's decision to allow openly gay group OUT@NBCUNIVERSAL to march in the parade under their own banner while rejecting pro-life Catholic groups who wished to do the same. Cardinal Dolan called the decision "a wise one" with which he had "no trouble with at all" and gave the committee his "full confidence and support." Despite multiple pleas and petitions from Catholics to the contrary, His Eminence refused to resign as the parade's Grand Marshall and showed up to the parade last Tuesday sporting a wide-eyed smile and a jolly attitude before coming face to face with one of his fiercest critics: Michael Voris of ChurchMilitant.TV (CMTV), a Catholic apostolate dedicated to combating heretical liberalism in the clergy.
Confronting Dolan head-on during the parade's press rally, Voris asked Dolan point-blank, "Do you have anything to say to loyal Catholics who find what you're doing here a great scandal to the faith?" Smiling jovially, Dolan gave his non-answer by saying, "No, come on in, we'd love to have you," before waltzing off while Voris demanded Dolan actually answer the question.
Moments later, Dolan's press handlers immediately had police escort Voris and CMTV crew away from the area despite the fact that they had legally authorized press credentials in their possession.
While no direct quotes have been attributed to Cardinal Dolan giving the order to have Voris forcefully pushed out, detailed analysis of the video does show His Eminence whispering to his communications director Joseph Zwilling before greeting other reporters. Moments later, footage shows that Zwilling kept tracking Voris and his crew until he eventually ordered an unidentified guard to have them removed, the very same guard who calls upon police to escort them out.
According to Voris, Joseph Zwilling knows exactly who he is and the two have communicated on multiple occasions, so the claim cannot be made that he feared for Cardinal Dolan's safety.
As of now, numerous mainstream Catholic media sources from Catholic News Agency to EWTN to Catholic News Service have been completely silent on what took place Tuesday.
Question 1:
Has anyone ever been removed from an Obama rally?
Question 2:
Did it become national news?
And, of course, he is still a “cardinal” (or bird-brain, I believe is the technical title) and the “pope” is having lunch (and desert?) with the homos.
Apples and oranges.
No way!
After seeing the video clip of Dolan strutting around on Fifth Avenue in his Halloween costume, I find myself wondering if that guy is a flaming homosexual himself. I can’t imagine any normal man conducting himself in public like that.
I wouldn’t be surprised.
Here is the youtube link to “The Vortex” clip: https://youtu.be/yzJ-hnTE24I?list=PL91feG5gFxM89gi7WMn1zOSC7FfWiomw-
The clip is very clear on what happened. Cardinal Dolan needs to be retired- or better yet excommunicated.
Absolutely. Open and shut case. Dolan's thuggery is evident for all to see.
I can’t figure Dolan out, and the editor of a prominent religious magazine agreed with me. “He [Dolan] will be tested,” he said. If this may have been one test. Another Irish bishop who should have gone into politics.
No, just another bishop running scared.
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