Cardinal Timothy Dolan to host special radio broadcasts from Ireland’s Eucharistic Congress

I hope his honeymoon is over with the press. It's time to scrutinize his every movement. That's happening now at the Vatican, and it's keeping them all up at night. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of guys.

@Seanmor - If the southern bishop's activities occured when he was a seminary student with other students, that would be between consenting adults as you say. If he was a teacher there or their bishop at the time and used his superior position to coerce the students into sexual acts, then his actions were criminal. The coerced students would have grounds for sexual harrassment law suits against him personally and the seminary where it occured.

Where is his shame.

What an EGO! Jesus would be proud? This guy is one olde gladhander BS'er. Doesn't work in the 21st century, your Emminence.

The Pope and Cardinal Dolan need to become Good Shepherds and work with SNAP to rid the priesthood of predators and to protect children from clergy sexual abuse. Right now, I believe that Pope Benedict XVI and Cardinal Dolan are among the foxes, by allowing the sexual abuse of innocent children by clergy to continue. This, to me, is a shameful abuse of their power and control. Where is the love and compassion of Jesus for children in all of this?

I'm trying to understand this issue from Cardinal Dolan's perspective. He says he put together the Milwaukee priest-payout policy, and he also says that SNAP, which pointed out that he had a priest-payout policy, "has no credibility whatsoever" and that SNAP's statement that Dolan had a priest-payout policy is "groundless and scurrilous." OK, all I need to do is to convince myself that a statement can be both true and not true at the same time. Now what was it that the Catholic Church says about Truth-- it is one, eternal, unchanging....

In my opinion, Dolan is the one with absolutely "no credibility!" Had it not been for the brave, courageous people at Survivor's Network of Those Abused By Priests the Catholic Church in the States would still be arrogant and unaccountable for the Soul Rape of Children and their subsequent coverups by bishops, archbishops and cardinals. Cardinal Dolan is in the running for Pope! Look at the way he dresses! For insight into the cost of dressing like a monkey in brocade, Google:" Jeannie Guzman The cost of looking like an Apostle or the Vicar of Christ on earth!" The figures will astound you!

if you have the guts to stand up to the obummer in the white house, do not expect good press from the n y propaganda machine.

The severe criticism Cardinal Dolan received in "The New York Times" and other anti-Catholic media reminds me of a phrase I learnd in a college course on mass communications: "The media are a means to mould the morés". Apparently the ant-Dolan, anti-Catholic media are succeeding to some extend in turning Catholics against the leadership of the R.C. Church. I know of only one Catholic prelate who was forced to resign because of a sex scandel. He was a Southern bishop who openly admitted having engaged in sexual activity with seminarains. Since this same-sex activity was betweeen consenting adults, doesn't this former bishop deserve the support of the 'politically correct' media?

His dress must be the latest Church garb, no doubt very costly. He won't have any audience in Ireland.

Leave it to bombastic and self-promoting Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York to try to steal the show during the upcoming Eucharistic Congress in Ireland.

Dolan needs to come clean about pimping out the rapists...

Nice dress, Timmy. No one listens to you in the States. Even less to ignore you in Ireland can only be seen as a step-up.

'SNAP has no credibility whatsoever,' Dolan scoffed. 'To respond to charges like that that are groundless and scurrilous in my book is useless and counterproductive.' Now those are exactly the words a psychopath would use. Very predictable.The usual belittling of the victims to try and pour more pain on their weary shoulders.Kevin Annett asks an interesting question which is worth a google.Why Do We Tolerate the Destruction of Children, and Those Who Are Responsible?"The fact that, under this dominant model, the abuse can continue, and is actually encouraged to continue, doesn’t seem to count for as much as the need for supplication and self-abasement by the one who has been abused. In short, modern “therapists” seem intent on subjecting victims of trauma to precisely what is needed to sustain them in a state of unalleviated humiliation and non-recovery. Anger and the refusal to “let go” of our violation is seen by such therapists as a hindrance to “moving on”, as if not accommodating to one’s wronged condition is the source of one’s problem. “Forgive and forget, and you will be better” is the unchallengeable secular creed of counseling psychology. The onus, in other words, is placed upon the victim, and not the victimizer, to change. Why?