My only complaint with the interview was at the end. Archbishop Dolan, your congregations get angry with the bishops when they jump into cultural debates on the side of the liberals (healthcare, immigration, et al)... essentially elevating social justice to the highest truth.
We are waiting with bated breath, however, for the bishops to look at the Democratic party as an enterprise and point out that they support intrinsic evil in their party platform (abortion, embryonic stem cell research and homosexual marriage). The problem is that the bishops find it easy to go along with popular culture in the fights of the day but don’t have the guts to stand up for the solid cultural truths.
So... ARCHBISHOP DOLAN, PLEASE STAND UP WITH ONE VOICE WITH YOUR FELLOW BISHOPS AND DENOUNCE THE EVIL THAT IS THE CURRENT DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
You march for life, support traditional marriage and fight the mandate... big deal. When the Catholics of this country remove their support for the Democrats (a 28% voting block) until they quit supporting evil... THEN we will have real change. Until then, it’s all just smoke and mirrors.
I am a Republican and a Catholic.
For Archbishop Dolan to denounce the "current Democratic party" as evil would be evil of Archbishop Dolan. Your very broad paintbrush misses the point.
The Democrat health mandate is EVIL. The idea is evil but that doesn't make an entire group of several million people evil. The female who aborts and the doctor who performs the abortions are doing EVIL acts but that still doesn't necessarily make them evil people.
Satan is evil. I can think of some individuals who are evil, but an ENTIRE POLITICAL PARTY? I wouldn't be so arrogant as to condemn the entire entity, though some IN THAT PARTY are evil.
In agreement!
Lots of Catholic talk about our political parties as always presented as a theoretical, but as Democratic and Republican politics havent shifted since 1980. The choices are and have been clear. The ‘culture of death’, and ‘the dictatorship of relativism’ are goals pursued by the democratic party. Unfortunately it can be said that the Republican party, has served as nothing less than a bad doorstop to a door that is swinging toward wide open. But the choices are clear.
Dream on. Cardinal Dolan is a “staunch union supporter” (”my father was a union man” - he declared on his arrival to NYC) and IMHO a Kennedy Catholic. Died-in-the-wool.