[NYer]

Dolan didn't start saying and doing these seriously Catholic-contradictory things until later.

Looking back over his relatively short tenure here in NY, I would set the time frame for this change to his elevation to cardinal. Red is considered a "power" color and it seems to have emboldened Dolan.

(By the way, what do you think about people in these kinds of hats?)

Lol ... a perfect match for the cheese heads.

[defconw]

I am sorry that this sort of thing goes on in NY. I don't believe every Bishop acts this way. Of course I have never lived in a Diocese with a Cardinal.

Let us just be grateful he was not elevated to Pope. We really would be headed down a dark path.

On the other hand maybe he announced this this early in order to get the groundswell up. By March he can change his mind.