Dolan's Catholic crusade - Uncle Tim has taken the gloves off in his fight for the Church

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Dolan’s Catholic crusade - Uncle Tim has taken the gloves off in his fight for the Church

Timothy Dolan came to town with a hammer in his hand. Of course, it wasn’t really much of hammer: just a little tappity-tap kind of thing, a tack hammer with a bright blue head, which he used it to rap on the door of St. Patrick’s Cathedral as part of the traditional ceremony for the installation of a new archbishop in New York.
That was back on April 15, the Wednesday before Easter. In the six months since, Archbishop Dolan has done hardly any public hammering — until now. On Oct. 29 he used the archdiocese’s website to publish a blistering attack on the repeated and knee-jerk anti-Catholicism of The New York Times.

Not that the attack was undeserved. At no point in its long history has the Times been what anyone would call a pro-Catholic institution, and if somebody needs to whacked upside the head to wake her up, it’s the Times’ columnist Maureen Dowd, whom Dolan singled out for the “intemperate and scurrilous” column she wrote on Sunday, Oct. 24.
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It is to be hoped that all the Catholic Bishops in North America, who haven’t yet done so, will realize, like Abp. Dolan, that not part of being Catholic requires one to act like a doormat. Hit a Catholic with a stick, and he SHOULD take it out of the assailant’s hand if he can, if only so that no one else will be hit with it. That’s not picking fights. That’s courageous witness to the truth.

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Gerry
 
Holy Smokes!

Two startling things are going on here.
  1. One of the most prominent American bishops actually using the shepherd’s crook on a wolf. (Smack!)
  2. A secular newspaper author “gets it” and writes about it in a way that would be forceful and impressive even by National Catholic REGISTER standards.
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I can’t help but think that this is EXACTLY what we need - a leader, someone who isn’t afraid to say it like it is and rally the troops!
 
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