Yesterday, Cardinal Timothy Dolan led 43 Catholic groups in filing 12 federal lawsuits against the White House's birth control mandate, requiring religious institutions' insurance plans to cover birth control. Today, Dolan appeared on CBS This Morning to further his case that the White House is "strangling" them.
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Cardinal Dolan: White House Is Strangling Our Religious Freedom To Deny Women Birth Control
Cardinal Dolan Wants To Take Contraception Requirement To Supreme Court
After a few weeks of resting his holy jowls Cardinal Dolan is back championing the church's First Amendment rights (except when it comes to those "radical" women) and thinks that the only way to block President Obama's health care requirement that insurance companies cover birth control is the Supreme Court. "What recourse does any citizen have?" Dolan asks WPIX11. "You can go to the Executive Branch. We tried that and unfortunately we're not making much progress…So what's our recourse, like any other citizen that feels aggrieved, we go to the Judiciary, and I don't think we'll be reluctant to do that." One set of robed men controlling women's reproductive rights is as good as another.
At Funeral, Boy Saved By Grandmother Says, "She Was My Favorite Grandma"
Today, the funeral of grandmother Clara Almazo was held at ur Lady of Mount Carmel-Saint Benedicta Church in Staten Island, with Cardinal Timothy Dolan presiding over the service. Almazo was killed on Thursday night while heading home from Holy Thursday mass when a car fatally struck her as she crossed Cary Avenue. Almazo, 57, managed to push her 8-year-old grandson, Brian Herrera-Ramirez, out of the way of the SUV. Dolan said he was moved by her selflessness, "Coming home from Holy Thursday mass, I mean the night that Jesus begins his Passion and giving her life for her little grandson. If that's not Christian witness, if that's not heroic virtue I don't know what is."
Cardinal Dolan Insists Birth Control Policy Is A "Radical Intrusion"
Cardinal Timothy Dolan isn't taking this "separation of church and state" thing lying down. Yesterday His Eminence went on CBS's Face the Nation to insist that the President's requirement that insurance companies pay for birth control puts his church in a "very tough spot." "You've got a dramatic, radical intrusion of a government bureaucracy into the internal life of the Church," Dolan said. "Our problem is the government is intruding into the life of faith in the church that they shouldn't be doing." Or is the Church intruding on the lives of 98% of its sexually-active flock?
Cardinal Dolan Is Cool With Jews, Not So Much With Gays
In his Easter sermon this morning, Cardinal Dolan gave a shout-out to his "rabbi friends" and insisted that his flock, "Pass over from darkness to light, from death or life! Jesus passed over from the cross to the resurrection!" Indeed, it's like how Dolan passes over the legal rights of gays when it comes to their desire to be treated like any other couple in New York. Accordingly, a junior member of the city's Catholic Charities board resigned yesterday over Dolan's position.
Cardinal Dolan Needs $177 Million To Renovate St. Patrick's Cathedral
Just before the St. Patrick's Day Parade, Cardinal Timothy Dolan announced yesterday the beginning phase of the $177 million renovation of St. Patrick's Cathedral. His timing was impeccable, getting that call in before the streets were flooded with suburban weekend warriors expressing the true spirit of yesterday's sanctified Catholic hoilday.
Cardinal Dolan Still Feels Betrayed That NY Passed Gay Marriage
Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who is getting ready to fight President Obama about contraception, is unhappy with the government right here in the Empire State (join the club!). Dolan told the Daily News it's all because of gay marriage's passage, "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."
Dolan On Contraceptive Fight: "It's A Freedom Of Religion Battle"
In January, Cardinal Timothy Dolan spoke on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops when he castigated the Obama administration for forcing American citizens "to choose between violating their consciences and forgoing their healthcare" in the debate over whether employers and health insurance companies had the right to deny contraception if they have moral or religious objections. The Senate has already voted to shoot down that GOP-led anti-contraception effort, but Dolan spoke out again yesterday, refusing to back down: “It is a freedom of religion battle,” he said. “It is not about contraception. It is not about women’s health.”
Take That, ESB: One World Trade Center Goes Red For Cardinal Dolan
The Empire State Building might have made a point of going white this weekend, but at least one structure in the city went and honored newly-anointed Cardinal Dolan with some red lights. One World Trade Center (nee the Freedom Tower) notably turned crimson to honor the Catholic. Which was not a simple matter of flipping a switch!
Cardinal Dolan Passes Up Chance To Make Terrible St. Louis Cardinals Pun
Newly elevated Cardinal Timothy Dolan was in top form yesterday, leading a special prayer service a week after being honored in the Vatican. Dolan lifted his red biretta at St. Patrick's Cathedral to attendees including Governor Cuomo and Mayor Bloomberg, "I come from the town of St. Louis that boasts 'This Bud’s For You'—but I say this morning, New York this hat’s for you." WHAT? No St. Louis CARDINALS pun? Do 5,000 Hail Marys now.
Empire State Building Won't Go Red For Cardinal Dolan
Rep. Michael Grimm, eager to shift attention away from his possibly super sketchy donations, is trying to convince the Empire State Building to light up in red to honor newly elevated Cardinal Timothy Dolan. But if the ESB isn't honoring Mother Theresa, why honor Dolan?
Chunky Cardinal Dolan Can't Put A Ring On It
NEWS FLASH FROM THE VATICAN: Newly elevated Cardinal Timothy Dolan is unable to remove his fancy cardinal ring because he's gotten too fat from eating pasta in Italy. The Last Temptation Of Dolan: Carbonara.
"Tired," "Weary" Pope Benedict Leads Mass With 22 New Cardinals, Including Dolan
A day after elevating 22 archbishops to cardinal—including the New York Archdiocese's Timothy Dolan—Pope Benedict led mass at St. Peter's Basilica today. And, at least according to the AP's report, the pontiff is looking and sounding rough: "Benedict, who turns 85 in April, read a long homily in a hoarse voice and looked tired on the third straight day of speeches, rituals and appearances for the new cardinals. Benedict told the new members of the College of Cardinals their main task is to 'bear witness to the joy of Christ's love.'"
Red Hat Time: Archbishop Dolan Elevated To Cardinal
Archbishop Timothy Dolan was officially named a cardinal by Pope Benedict today. According to the Daily News, "The city’s newly-elevated Catholic leader was smiling from cheek to cheek Saturday after receiving a gold ring and red silk biretta from the pontiff inside St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City." Dolan said, "This hat is really for New York. I want to put it on the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty and the Brooklyn Bridge." You get a red hat! And you get a red hat!
Cardinal Egan Back At Pulpit For Easter Weekend
Before a service at St. Patrick's Cathedral yesterday, Edward Cardinal Egan told reporters, "I'm feeling pretty good but not as good as I should be. To miss Holy Thursday and Good Friday would be a heavy cross to bear. I decided not to bear that one if I didn't have to." The 77-year-old head of the NY Archdiocese had been hospitalized for a few days starting last Saturday for stomach pains (which the NY Times says was a "gastrointestinal virus") and will need surgery to have a pacemaker implanted. But Egan was upbeat and said he would lead services today, tomorrow and Easter Sunday, which will then lead into next week when his successor, Archbishop Timothy Dolan, will be installed. One NJ woman who attended the service told the Times, "It’s kind of incredible he was able to make it. I have a lot of respect for his determination."
Cardinal Egan Goes Off The Air
Yesterday was Cardinal Egan's final "Conversation with the Cardinal on Sirius Radio's Catholic Channel. The NY Times reports that he tried to set the record straight: "In jocular, yet pointed remarks, he said that he would not, in fact, retire to a penthouse apartment in Paris; that he did not play Mozart sonatas for friends on the baby grand at his residence behind St. Patrick’s Cathedral; that he does not dine frequently at 'Upper East Side gourmet eateries'; and that he was not against continuing the rule of celibacy for priests." Egan, who also turned 77 yesterday, explained why he went on satellite radio, "I live in a town where the media are not friendly. They feel that they are going to be important only to the extent that they pull down not only ourselves, but any other institution that seems to have some standing. So I think it’s important to talk over the media." The new Cardinal, Timothy Dolan, will be installed on April 15, 2009.
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