Posted on 09/18/2014 10:40:50 AM PDT by cleghornboy
Writing for his column in New York Catholic, Cardinal Timothy Dolan complains that he is receiving much criticism for deciding to serve as Grand Marshall in next year's St. Patrick's Day parade which will feature homosexuals marching under their own banner. The Cardinal writes, I haven’t been in this much hot water since I made the comment, right after I arrived as your archbishop five-and-a-half years ago, that Stan Musial—my boyhood hero of my hometown St. Louis Cardinals—was a much better ballplayer than Joe DiMaggio!
Now I’m getting as much fiery mail and public criticism over my decision to accept the honor of Grand Marshal of this year’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade. According to the critics, I should have refused, due to the Parade Committee’s decision to allow a group of self-identified Gays of Irish ancestry to march in the parade with their own banner.
As with Stan Musial, I’ll stand by my decision. However, enough of you have courteously expressed some confusion and dismay, that, as your pastor, I owe you an explanation. Let me try. For one, the decision to change the parade protocol was not mine. The archbishops of New York have never been “in charge” of the parade. Although my predecessors and I have always enjoyed friendly cooperation with the Parade Committee—and still do—and deeply appreciate the identity of the Parade as a celebration purely of Irish heritage, intimately linked to the Catholic Faith, we’ve never had a say in Parade policy or the choice of the Grand Marshal. Nor did we expect or want one!
So, in the current 'brawl,' (they have been hardly rare in the Parade’s grand 253-year history!), I did not make the decision!...
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He cries peace, peace when there is no peace.
I’m betting Francis joins him...
I bet it’s fun being Grand Marshall of a big parade. Who would let anything get in the way of that?
Hasn't he already....yet who are we to judge.......
I wonder if Dolan will mind their dressing up as nuns and clergy?
Why does he capitalize “gay” over and over?
He shouldn’t even use the word to begin with.
Kind of odd he protests that he didn’t “make” the decision...but that he still associates himself with its aftermath.
Well, certainly we are not to judge other believers, but I am not sure that Francis qualifies as a believer. Religious, yes, understanding the Gospel of Grace, not so much.
My Catholic Pope Benedict XVI is kidnapped and an apostate sits on Peter’s Rock.
So we're to believe they're chaste, celibate "Gay" people of Irish ancestry? If he keeps this up, his skull will be one of those littering the floor of Hell.
Serving as Grand Marshal gives tacit approval. And those who want the glad-hand Dolan know that very well.
Are you sure that the organization doesn't want John XXII back?
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