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Archbishop Dolan's prayerful PAC asked to act to prevent gays from achieving equality (IrishCentral)

Wed, 29 May 2013 06:04:01 PDT

Archbishop Timothy Dolan, in his role as head of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, has just issued a directive for all parishes to include the following anti-gay message into every Sunday bulletin The message opens: 'For the first time in our nation’s history, the Supreme Court is considering two cases about whether or not marriage should be redefined to include two persons of the same sex' 'These cases involve the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and California’s Proposition 8, both of which define marriage as the union of one man and one womanThe Court is expected to rule on both cases by the end of June READ MORE

Could New York’s Archbishop Timothy Dolan still be the next Pope? (IrishCentral)

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 04:08:23 PDT

By: IrishCentral Staff Writers

We have a new Pope Francis but speculation about who will eventually succeed him started the hour his new papacy was announced.

Irish Archbishops slam Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s report on Rome Irish college (IrishCentral)

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 04:26:05 PDT

By: PATRICK COUNIHAN

Cardinal Timothy Dolan has been attacked by four Irish archbishops for a misleading report which had led to major changes at the Irish College in Rome.

Archbishop Timothy Dolan's Irish second-grade teacher to watch him become cardinal (IrishCentral)

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:14:40 PST

By: ANTOINETTE KELLY

When Archbishop Timothy Dolan becomes a cardinal on February 18, his second-grade teacher will be there.

New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan - much power but little glory (IrishCentral)

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:45:22 PST

Archbishop Timothy Dolan (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)“Could Cardinal Dolan Become Pope?”The question jumped out at me from the CBS News website and made me chuckle for several reasons First of all, New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan will not even get his red hat until February 18 Yet here they are speculating that the guy might become PopeAnd then there’s the prospect of an Irish American pope in Rome READ MORE

New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan elevated to cardinal by Vatican (IrishCentral)

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 07:31:02 PST

By: BERNIE MALONE

Pope Benedict XVI has announced that New York’s Archbishop Timothy Dolan will be among the 22 prelates elevated to the position of cardinal by the Roman Catholic Church, on 18th February.

Archbishop Timothy Dolan's gay bashing letter to President Obama (IrishCentral)

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 06:20:25 PDT

Look at CanadaOn July 20, 2005, Canada became the fourth country in the world and the first country in the Americas to legalize same-sex marriage with the enactment of the Civil Marriage ActBy 2011 the only major social change that has occurred is that gay people have almost total equality under Canadian lawThat's nice for them, isn't it?The erosion of traditional marriage, the marginalization of religion and the complete breakdown of the family, still so fretted over by some conservatives, hasn't happened READ MORE

James 'Whitey' Bulger and Archbishop Timothy Dolan - how the mighty have fallen (IrishCentral)

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:28:34 PDT

New York Archbishop Timothy DolanThis past week, two high-profile Irish American institutions were taken down First and most famously, there was the elusive South Boston mobster Whitey Bulger Coming just weeks after the killing of Osama bin Laden, the capture of the 81 year-old Bulger wipes two of the top criminals off of the FBI’s Top 10 most wanted listWith the FBI finally closing the Bulger saga -- even confirming that thecriminal was still alive and had been difficult -- Irish mobsters might as well be placed on the endangered species list READ MORE

Archbishop Timothy Dolan and the Zombie Apocalypse (IrishCentral)

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 05:50:36 PDT

The GOP's offices in Albany must have seemed like an outpost of the Vatican this weekFirst Archbishop Timothy Dolan sent GOP Majority Leader Dean Skelos a widely reported warning salvo - calling in to an Albany radio show to claim that the marriage equality bill currently under consideration by the Senate could infringe on religious freedomThen, to underline his alarm, Dolan sent Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn to visit Skelos' in his office on Friday morningDolan, who spent the week expressing himself like a terrified protagonist in a cold-war espionage film, added:'Last time I consulted an atlas, it is clear we are living in New York, in the United States of America – not in China or North Korea READ MORE

Archbishop Timothy Dolan takes another swing at the New York Times (IrishCentral)

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 04:30:19 PDT

Archbishop Timothy Dolan is taking another swing at the New York Times Around this time last year, Dolan took to his blog to excoriate the Times for four articles and columns he considered anti-Catholic (The public editor Clark Hoyt responded) This time, Dolan is calling out the paper for covering an art show and a play which he says denigrate Catholics READ MORE