Tag Archives: Timothy Dolan

FRC’s Values Voters Summit 2012

“And the 2012 presidential nominees!” Yeaaah, I’m thinking that at least one nominee is going to be a no-show.

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Headline Of The Day

And not a peep yet from Bill Donohue, either.

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BOMBSHELL: Cardinal Timothy Dolan Accused Of Paying Off Pedophile Priests

The New York Times last night dropped a bombshell on Cardinal Timothy Dolan, reporting that Dolan paid pedophile priests to go away, rather than turning them in to authorities. Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York authorized payments of as much as $20,000 to sexually abusive priests as an incentive for them to agree to dismissal from the priesthood when …

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Maureen Dowd On Catholic Lawsuit

“The church insists it’s an argument about religious freedom, not birth control. But, really, it’s about birth control, and women’s lower caste in the church. It’s about conservative bishops targeting Democratic candidates who support contraception and abortion rights as a matter of public policy. And it’s about a church that is obsessed with sex in ways it shouldn’t be, and …

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Dolan: Obama Is Strangling Our Religious Freedom To Control Women’s Bodies

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Catholic Groups Sue Obama Administration

The University of Notre Dame, the Archdiocese of New York, and over 40 other dioceses and Catholic groups have filed a freedom of religion lawsuit against the Obama administration. Catholic News Service reports: “This lawsuit is about an unprecedented attack by the federal government on one of America’s most cherished freedoms: the freedom to practice one’s religion without government interference,” …

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Cardinal Dolan Denounces Obama

“President Obama’s comments today in support of the redefinition of marriage are deeply saddening. As I stated in my public letter to the President on September 20, 2011, the Catholic Bishops stand ready to affirm every positive measure taken by the President and the Administration to strengthen marriage and the family. However, we cannot be silent in the face of …

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Quote Of The Day – Maureen Dowd

“Even as Republicans try to wrestle women into chastity belts, the Vatican is trying to muzzle American nuns. Who thinks it’s cool to bully nuns? While continuing to heal and educate, the community of sisters is aging and dying out because few younger women are willing to make such sacrifices for a church determined to bring women to heel. Yet …

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Rabbi Yehuda Levin: Cardinal Dolan Must Call Out Romney For Homosexualism

Levin is echoing yesterday’s call by the Vatican for a united ecumenical front against the civil equality of gay Americans.

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Petition Launched: Ask America’s Highest Profile Cardinal to Support LGBT Youth

Joseph Amodeo, who last week resigned from Catholic Charities after seeing Cardinal Dolan’s arrogant and dismissive letter to Carl Siciliano, has launched a petition asked Dolan to meet with some of NYC’s homeless LGBT youth. It’s wrong that 30-40% of homeless youth are LGBT. We’re asking Cardinal Dolan to meet with homeless LGBT youth, hear their stories, and dialogue with …

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Catholic Charities Board Member Quits Over Cardinal Dolan Vs Carl Siciliano Flap

A board member of Catholic Charities has resigned after reading Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s dismissive and arrogant response to Carl Siciliano. Joseph Amodeo quit after Dolan took umbrage at a letter from a group that works with homeless lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender youths. “As a gay Catholic who teaches religious education (more than eight years in service to the Archdiocese …

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Cardinal Dolan Responds To Carl Siciliano: You Better Watch Your Damned Mouth

New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan has responded to Ali Forney Center founder Carl Siciliano, who last month published a blistering takedown of Dolan’s relentless campaign to rip apart families and send LGBT youth careening into despair, self-harm, and homelessness. As you can see, Dolan essentially tells Siciliano to watch his mouth. (Or else?) Read Siciliano’s response to the above letter …

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NOM Is A Vatican Front Group, Part 8

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Freep This Poll

TIME Magazine wants to know if Cardinal Timothy Dolan should be on their 2012 TIME 100 list. As with their Person Of The Year, making the list doesn’t necessarily mean you are a good person, as also nominated is Kim Jong Un. Cast your votes for the leaders, artists, innovators, icons and heroes that you think are the most influential …

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HomoQuotable – Carl Siciliano

“Cardinal Dolan, I pray that you might be able to open your eyes and your heart to the cruel suffering LGBT youths endure when their parents reject them. I invite you to visit the Ali Forney Center, only 30 blocks from St. Patrick’s Cathedral, and meet with youths whose Catholic parents drove them from their homes. I want you to …

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Dolan: Still Pissed About NY Marriage

“We got burned last year when we were told the redefinition of marriage didn’t have much of a chance — and of course it did. Our Senate leaders, we highly appreciated them being with us all along. When they kind of assured us it didn’t have much of a chance, not that we let up, but we probably would have …

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Cardinal Dolan Slams Limbaugh

“Whatever we do, and however strongly we feel, we do it charitably, we do it civilly. We don’t judge the motives of other people. We just try, in a confident, peaceful, inviting way, to make our position felt, to invite other people to respect it. We don’t want to do it in a pugnacious way.” – Cardinal Timothy Dolan, responding …

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Legislators Dis Dolan

Didn’t the New York Daily News just tell us that Cardinal Dolan has “captured the hearts of all New Yorkers”? Apparently not. A push to make Dolan the guest of honor at the March 12 annual dinner for the New York State American-Irish Legislators Society was squashed amid internal controversy, multiple sources said. “Dolan was the first one mentioned to …

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NYC Tabs “Outraged” Over Dolan Dis

As I reported yesterday, the Catholic League and other theocrats are up in arms because the privately-owned Empire State Building refused to honor the elevation of Cardinal Timothy Dolan by lighting the landmark in red. Today the New York Daily News continues to suckle at Dolan’s pendulous teats with the above cover and a Page Two outraged item which includes …

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