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

Dolan is leading about one hundred New Yorkers on a ten day Archdiocesan pilgrimage to Ireland

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ANTOINETTE KELLY,
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Published Friday, June 8, 2012, 8:16 AM
Updated Friday, June 8, 2012, 12:08 PM

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Cardinal Timothy Dolan will host two special editions of his Sirius XM Radio show during his pilgrimage to Ireland, it has been announced.

The conversation with Cardinal Dolan will air from Ireland on Thursday, June 7 at 12:00PM ET and Wednesday, June 13 at 7:00AM ET on The Catholic Channel (Sirius Radio and XM Radio channel 129).

Dolan is leading about one hundred New Yorkers on a ten day Archdiocesan pilgrimage to Ireland from June 4 - 13, where he will participate in the opening of the International Eucharistic Congress to promote an awareness of the central place of the Eucharist in the life and mission of the Catholic Church.

Dolan's visit has been shadowed by controversy however, after a New York Times report at the weekend claimed he personally approved substantial payouts to multiple priests accused of sex abuse charges while he was archbishop of Milwaukee, an accusation he called 'groundless and scurrilous.'

According to the Times, Dolan reportedly agreed that the priests accused of sex abuse should be paid $20,000 in exchange for leaving the priesthood.

But WNYC.org reports that Dolan blasted the Times' coverage of 'this issue' after mass at Saint Patrick's Cathedral on Sunday, insisting it was neither fair nor accurate.

Dolan also took aim at the abuse victims advocate group Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP) which recently published a document from the archdiocese's bankruptcy proceedings that made reference to a proposal to pay up to $20,000 to priests accused of sex abuse who renounce their priesthood.

'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.'

The organization hit back saying that Dolan was covering up a major scandal.


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markday | Jun 09, 2012, 02:11 AM EDT
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.

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EphraimKibbey | Jun 09, 2012, 01:21 AM EDT
@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.

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Collette2 | Jun 08, 2012, 11:02 PM EDT
Where is his shame.

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poetman | Jun 08, 2012, 06:08 PM EDT
What an EGO! Jesus would be proud? This guy is one olde gladhander BS'er. Doesn't work in the 21st century, your Emminence.

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DrMcHugh | Jun 08, 2012, 04:46 PM EDT
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?

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eiriamach | Jun 08, 2012, 03:42 PM EDT
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....

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Intercessor | Jun 08, 2012, 01:03 PM EDT
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!

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dev4 | Jun 08, 2012, 11:46 AM EDT
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.

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Seanmor | Jun 08, 2012, 10:53 AM EDT
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?

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Bythebay | Jun 08, 2012, 10:24 AM EDT
His dress must be the latest Church garb, no doubt very costly. He won't have any audience in Ireland.

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rugbyplayer | Jun 08, 2012, 10:05 AM EDT
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.

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ronshapley | Jun 08, 2012, 10:04 AM EDT
Dolan needs to come clean about pimping out the rapists...

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DirkTalamasca | Jun 08, 2012, 09:52 AM EDT
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.

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Portia777 | Jun 08, 2012, 09:29 AM EDT
'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?

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