[the invisib1e hand]

I appreciate your point, but there’s more to it than that.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I wonder if we are using reflexive rash judgment rather than common sense on this one.

• Dolan already hotly rejected Obama's HHS regs as "straitjacketing," "handcuffing," and "strangling" the Catholic Church.

• Dolan already publically branded Obama's so-called accommodations and pledges of "freedom of conscience" as falsehoods.

• Dolan is suing the Obama administration in Federal court, 'for Christ's sake'

Here are the possibilities. I'm thinking, which is really most likely?

• Dolan has inexplicably forgotten everything he learned in past 45 months, and is toddling up to high-five the man who is shedding innocent blood, bullying the Church, and who lied to him in public.

• Dolan has morphed into baby-sacrificing Orc.

  Or:

• Dolan knows Obama is too much a narcissist to turn down a ("historic!") dinner invitation, and is luring him in to the most media-heavy charity event of the season --- TWO WEEKS before Election Day---- to expose him as the most deadly threat to the Church in U.S. history.

I understand why a person would have misgivings---this thing is making my hair stand up straight. But then it becomes our duty to tell Cardinal Dolan exactly what his responsibility is to Life and Liberty, to the future of this nation, and to us.

Make sure he sees his opportunity here. Make sure he takes it.

archbishop.dolan@archny.org