Maureen Dowd calls for more women in Catholic Church as Dolan says Pope is like Jesus Christ
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Archbishop Timothy Dolan was supposed to be a breath of fresh air for New York Catholics after the creaking moribund reign by Cardinal Edward Egan.
But it's clearly back to business as usual with the Catholic Church as Dolan has joined a long line of senior clergy defending Pope Benedict XVI.
Incredibly, Dolan says Benedict is like Jesus and needs to be defended by his flock.
Dolan made his comments during a standing-room only Palm Sunday Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral.
Now Dolan wants the flock to pray for Benedict and says he faces the same crown of thorns as Jesus Christ did.
Sorry Archbishop, but let's not forget that the Pope - like countless other top Church officials in Ireland - has been accused of ignoring the evidence of sex and child abuse priests in the U.S., Ireland and Germany.
Interestingly, over at The New York Times, Maureen Dowd used Palm Sunday to highlight why she believes the Church should have a female Pope, a "Nope" as she called it.
She says it's time to elevate women to the same status of men.
I know which version of Catholicism I prefer.
As Maureen writes;"If the church could throw open its stained glass windows and let in some air, invite women to be priests, nuns to be more emancipated and priests to marry, if it could banish criminal priests and end the sordid culture of men protecting men who attack children, it might survive."
Or else we can just keep on sticking our heads in the sand and pretending the people who need to answer tough questions should be treated like the messiah they so clearly aren't.
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2BorNot2B | Apr 23, 2010, 01:37 PM EDT
Bushothehill -- COULD NOT HAVE SAID IT MORE CLEARLY AND SUCCINTLY
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Portia777 | Apr 04, 2010, 09:27 AM EDT
What do we need a church for??????
We are all evolved enough now to think for ourselves.
We each have our very own church inside ourselves, so why look to join with others and be brainwashed by their ideas?
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Portia777 | Apr 04, 2010, 09:24 AM EDT
Every womb-man knows it is wise to leave this church, not join it or stay in it- to do otherwise is to collude with criminals.
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Bushothehill | Apr 02, 2010, 07:52 PM EDT
Miss Dowd typifies the fallen Catholic who justifies her failure to live up to her faith with attacks on the universal church. She's not alone for it is evident in many writers and other artists who suffer from the same malady of warped self- justification. Please,Miss Dowd, let's see you do your hatchet job on the citadel of pedophilia that has heretofore been rendered impregnable by the Teachers' Unions. I guess like your ilk--you're not up for it!
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McNamara31 | Apr 02, 2010, 10:52 AM EDT
@johnny5K The horrific crime here, was the silence and cover up. Every adult knows, that predators are in all walks of life. The church enabled this horrific abuse until it was finally brought to light by The Boston Globe.
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Mollyanne | Apr 01, 2010, 11:16 AM EDT
I think the week thats in it we should be thankful for the good Priests that we have and go and do our duty as Catholics and be proud of our Church and religion, and look forward and not back and pray for an resurection in the Church. I am tired of being accused and ashamed for something I did not do. I will go to Mass and pray for peace in the church and in peoples lives that have been affected by all the terrible abuse as this is all I have the power to do.
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sully1167 | Apr 01, 2010, 02:44 AM EDT
I can't see how Pope Benedict can be compared to Jesus Christ. Jesus was poor and lived in the desert, Benedict lives in a palace filled with gold. Jesus was a liberal Jew from the middle east,and looked like a hippie. Benedict was in a Nazi youth group.
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PhlutiePhan | Mar 31, 2010, 05:11 PM EDT
What is the real "purpose" of this attack on the Catholic Church. It is the destruction of morality. Those "few" who attack have their "hidden" agenda coming more and more to the surface of the one world government and the one world religion in the vision of Sigmund Freud.
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johnny5k | Mar 31, 2010, 02:49 PM EDT
@KathyCallahan
Do you think the Catholic church is a place for predators? It is the most watched organization in regards to abuse and has taken many many steps to correct issues prevalent throughout all of society. The Catholic church has become the training ground for those that spot abuse and protect children via their Virtus training program. I hope you will look into it:
http://www.virtus.org/virtus/
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johnny5k | Mar 31, 2010, 02:46 PM EDT
@Lilyobrien: It is tragic and utterly repugnant that a priest would commit any kind of abuse towards children, but isn't it also the same for public school teachers? Should all public school teachers be punished for the errand actions of a few and have you renounced the Public Educational system like you have the Catholic church?
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KMcSinger | Mar 31, 2010, 11:21 AM EDT
Absolutely!
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mrkennedy | Mar 31, 2010, 11:01 AM EDT
I wonder why Our Lord only chose men to be his apostles? Is Maureen Dowd saying that Jesus didn't know what he was doing even though he was the Son of God the Father?
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knockatee | Mar 31, 2010, 09:46 AM EDT
Amen to all of Maureen Dowd's suggestions. Many were also suggested by John Spain last week - and I think this is one of the rare times I've agreed with Spain. Now, if my Mother who was a devote Catholic and had 14 children, also wanted such changes in the Church, what is the matter with the leadership? It's time for them to "cop on."
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Lillyobrien | Mar 31, 2010, 08:43 AM EDT
Many reasons I left Catholicism, they are all above.
Any church that can hurt a child in any way, I don't
want to be a part of.
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