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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vincentruane | Mar 30, 2010, 10:15 PM EDT
St.Matthew: And I say to thee:Thou art Peter; and upon this rock, I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
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bcoc1124 | Mar 30, 2010, 04:44 PM EDT
The vision in my head is not of this bishop and many other bishops including the bishop of Rome sticking their heads in the sand, but their ability to see is likewise impaired. Actually I do pray for them - I pray that as they absolve each other, they will also demand appropriate penance including resignation as princes of the church.
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johnny5k | Mar 30, 2010, 04:24 PM EDT
"While this may come as a shocker to the Times, no priest can be defrocked until he is found guilty. If the inquiry was on-going when Murphy died, there is no way he could have been defrocked."
http://www.catholicleague.org/release.php?id=1813
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johnny5k | Mar 30, 2010, 04:13 PM EDT
Why is it an error to defend those who are falsely ACCUSED just as Jesus was falsely accused? Note not yet convicted but ACCUSED? Every single person in the world who has ever been accused of a crime they did not do shares that in common with Jesus.
Kelly, for your sake I hope no one ever accuses you of a crime because according to your standards you should be treated as guilty until proven innocent.
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CitizenWhy | Mar 30, 2010, 12:50 PM EDT
Why don't some repentant Irish bishops form a Reformed Catholic Church in Ireland (RCCI)? Those initials kind of blend two old brands into a new one. No, wait, that's the name of the breakaway church in my novel. So don't use it.
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