"If we are prepared to do this for 6,900 children lost to the abortionists, how can we accept the argument that caring for less than 2% of that number is something we can’t afford?"
Showing posts with label Archbishop Dolan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Archbishop Dolan. Show all posts
Borders and burdens
John Huebscher, Executive Director of the Wisconsin Catholic Conference, argues that
Unaccompanied Minors at Our Border Provide Opportunity for Pro-Life Witness, in WCC's Eye on the Capitol for August 1, 2014. Here's his math.
Abp. Dolan "weights" for tomorrows elevation to Cardinal
With the help of Shapiro’s counsel, Dolan has lost 25 pounds in the last year, after trying every diet from Atkins to cleansing shakes.
“His brother and I would joke about the diet du jour," said Jerry Topczewski, who was Dolan's chief of staff when he was archbishop of Milwaukee.
“He will never pass up a plate of meatloaf and macaroni and cheese,” he said, recalling how Dolan would joke he wouldn’t stay for the food at functions if the mashed potatoes weren’t real.
Milwaukee Auxiliary Bishop Donald Hying, 48, remembers Dolan was watching his weight when they attended a conference dinner in Seattle in June 2011.
He only ate half his steak and potatoes and passed the rest of it to Hying, down a line of cardinals.
“It was a surreal moment,” he said.
Dolan’s brother, Bob, said he’s not sensitive about his rotund silhouette.
"He's always making fun of himself. His weight is fair game because he makes fun of it himself all the time," he said.
Deacon's Bench: Worth a thousand words
Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan prays the rosary on steps of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. He’s on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land this week.Deacon's Bench
Abp. Dolan in Wall St. Journal: How about some respect for Catholics and others who object to treating pregnancy as a disease?
continue at WSJReligious freedom is the lifeblood of the American people, the cornerstone of American government. When the Founding Fathers determined that the innate rights of men and women should be enshrined in our Constitution, they so esteemed religious liberty that they made it the first freedom in the Bill of Rights.
In particular, the Founding Fathers fiercely defended the right of conscience. George Washington himself declared: "The conscientious scruples of all men should be treated with great delicacy and tenderness; and it is my wish and desire, that the laws may always be extensively accommodated to them." James Madison, a key defender of religious freedom and author of the First Amendment, said: "Conscience is the most sacred of all property."
Scarcely two weeks ago, in its Hosanna-Tabor decision upholding the right of churches to make ministerial hiring decisions, the Supreme Court unanimously and enthusiastically reaffirmed these longstanding and foundational principles of religious freedom. The court made clear that they include the right of religious institutions to control their internal affairs.
Yet the Obama administration has veered in the opposite direction.
The Catholic Thing reviews John Allen's book on Cdl. elect T. Dolan.
Cardinal-designate Timothy M. Dolan of New York is becoming the most visible Catholic churchman in the Western Hemisphere. He is also a down-to-earth pastor – a clavicle-crushing six-foot-three teddy bear of a man whom you meet for the first time and, ten minutes later, feel you’ve known for a decade. I’ve met other archbishops and cardinals, and not one has impressed me as so thoroughly in love with the People of God as is the tenth archbishop of New York.continue at The Catholic Thing
And this is essentially the conclusion of A People of Hope, by the National Catholic Reporter’s John L. Allen, Jr. – a book-length interview with Archbishop Dolan. Mr. Allen writes that his literary model is The Ratzinger Report (1984), but Vittorio Messori’s interview with Cardinal Ratzinger, then head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, was a broadside against the “hermeneutic of rupture” after Vatican II.
Allen acknowledges that his book is more anecdotal and less doctrinal: that A People of Hope intends to be upbeat – about “what Catholicism is for rather than what it’s against,” which seems a backhanded slap at the man who is currently pope – who’ll present the red hat to Dolan next month.
Tim Dolan, as Mr. Allen insists on calling him, is nobody’s typical archbishop.
HT Dad29
Cardinal-elect Dolan to celebrate Mass of Thanksgiving at Holy Hill April 28
MilCatHeraldCardinal Timothy M. Dolan will celebrate a Mass of Thanksgiving, Saturday, April 28, at 4:30 p.m. in the upper church at the National Shrine of Mary Help of Christians - the Basilica of Holy Hill.dolan1(CNS photo)
The Mass will be in thanksgiving for his elevation to the College of Cardinals by Pope Benedict XVI and for the time he spent as archbishop of Milwaukee – 2002-2009.
Archbishop Jerome E. Listecki is pleased that the Catholic community in southeastern Wisconsin will have the opportunity to celebrate with his predecessor.
“It is only right that those of us in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee celebrate Cardinal-designate Dolan’s elevation to the College of Cardinals,” Archbishop Listecki said. “As someone privileged to be called one of his many friends, I am truly grateful for the many blessings he has brought to the church, and cannot wait to welcome him back to our archdiocese.”
Seating at the Mass, which is open to the public, is on a first come, first served basis. No tickets will be needed in order to attend. Overflow seating will be in the lower church where worshippers will receive a video feed of the Mass.
A reception for Cardinal Dolan will follow the celebration.
For more information, call (414) 690-2715.
+Dolan named cardinal
New York TimesArchbishop Timothy M. Dolan, who has led the Archdiocese of New York for nearly two years, was named a cardinal by the Vatican, the archdiocese announced on Friday.
Archbishop Dolan, who was named to succeed Cardinal Edward M. Egan in February 2009, is set to deliver a mass at the Cathedral of Saint Patrick on Friday morning and was expected to address the announcement.
He said in a statement Friday morning that he was “honored, humbled, and grateful” by his elevation to the top of the church hierarchy, just below the pope, in what is known by many in the church as “getting the red hat,” a reference to the broad-brimmed headgear worn by cardinals.
“It’s as if Pope Benedict is putting the red hat on top of the Empire State Building, or the Statue of Liberty, or on home plate at Yankee Stadium; or on the spires of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral or any of our other parish churches,” he said. He said becoming cardinal was not about himself but “about an affirmation of love from the Pope to a celebrated archdiocese and community.”
Dad29: Abp Dolan's Big Mistake
Dad29You'll hear more about this. Abp Dolan was interviewed by 60 Minutes.
When Safer suggested that the incidence of priests sexually abusing children might be decreased if Catholic clergy were allowed to be married, Dolan responded, "I don't know if – what we know scholarship-wise would back that up, Morley. The greatest culprits in sexual abuse are unfortunately married men. So, I don't know if marriage is the answer."
The Archbishop is wrong.
A fellow named David Usher cited a study:
The study found sexual abuse – indeed all forms of abuse – to be least common in homes with married biological parents. According to the report, only about 1 in 2,000 children in such homes suffer sexual abuse.By comparison, the report states, 5 of every 2,000 children in single-parent households – and 20 of every 2,000 children in households where a single parent welcomes a partner into the home – suffers sexual abuse.
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Caption contest
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Enter your caption ideas below and winner gets .... well bragging rights for now.
Paul Ryan & family meet with Abp. Dolan in NY
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House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) attended mass at Saint Patrick's Cathedral Sunday taking a break from budget negotiations in Washington.IBT
Ryan was invited by Archbishop Timothy Dolan who once lead Milwaukee's Archdiocese and called the represenative "my good friend."
After the service Ryan and his family met with Dolan in his private residence.
The Contraception Contradiction
I won't go on a man-hating rant in this post... but following up on yesterday's post/discussion on birth control, society and what it's like to be single as a Catholic these days, this article struck home (plus, the author went to UW-Madison with me, so it has to be good!)
New York City is the abortion capital of America. More than 40 percent of pregnancies in New York City end in abortion (excluding miscarriages), nearly twice the national rate. The abortion rate among the city’s black residents is a jaw-dropping 60 percent. In 2009, New York City saw more than 87,000 abortions—one roughly every six minutes.Responding to questions about the city’s high abortion rate, Deborah Kaplan, deputy commissioner of NYC's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, told Crain’s business journal, “To me, the problem is access. If we improved access to contraceptives, there would be a reduction in abortion.”Quinn and Kaplan were echoing the conventional wisdom about the relationships between contraception, unintended pregnancy, and abortion. The theory holds that since most abortions are the result of unintended pregnancies, efforts to reduce unintended pregnancies will reduce the number of abortions. And since contraceptives can reduce the number of unintended pregnancies, expanding access to contraceptives will lower the abortion rate.But that logic has not worked very well in practice. If New York City is the abortion capital of America, it is also the contraceptive capital of America. Free or low-cost birth control is available through dozens of publicly-funded programs at more than 200 places throughout New York state, most of them in New York City and its suburbs.The city’s health department distributes a pocket-size guide showing teenagers where they can get low-cost or free contraception, information that is also available on the city’s 311 phone and Internet hotlines. New York City hands out three million free condoms every month at thousands of venues. The city even has its own brand of condoms, NYC Condoms.
Read the rest at Catholic World Report.
Wisconsin hands out $18 million annually in state and federal taxpayer funds to Planned Parenthood for birth control. STD infection rates are extremely high, teenage pregnancy in Milwaukee ranks in the highest in the nation, and you have Gwen Moore telling Congress that abortion is better for a poor baby than a lifetime spent eating Ramen noodles. Abortion will end when society's addiction to contraception does.
Paul Ryan & Abp Dolan talk Social Justice
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Catholic university professors last week engaged in a tired broadside against Speaker of the House John Boehner as he was set to deliver the commencement speech at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.Read at NationalReview
This week, something much more constructive: The public presentation of an ongoing dialogue between Paul Ryan, a Catholic from Wisconsin, who is the House Budget committee chairman, and Archbishop Timothy Dolan, the president of the Catholic bishop’s conference, about Catholic social teaching and its application to the current budget debate.
HT CatholicVote
Abp Dolan responds to SNAP attacks
I owe it to all of you — both the Catholic and wider community — to be very clear about the ridiculous and groundless gossip spread about me by a tort lawyer named Jeff Anderson.Arch NY
You may have heard this man claim that, when I was Archbishop of Milwaukee, I “hid’ $130 million of archdiocesan funds so victims of clergy sexual abuse could not sue for it.
Malarkey! The Archdiocese of Milwaukee has an excellent record of fiscal integrity and transparency. I worked hard at that, and my successor, Archbishop Listecki, continues to do so. (By the way, you might also be interested to know that during my years as Archbishop of Milwaukee, and with the generous service of many dedicated people, we established a mediation process that reached settlements with almost 200 victim survivors; that mediation process has been praised by the victim survivors who have participated in the process.)
In my seven years there, the meager resources of the archdiocese were under the vigilance of a sound and respected finance council, composed of prominent and respected business leaders from the financial community; annually we were audited; and each year there was complete, published financial disclosure. You can find the audited financial statements here. To claim that, given this rigorous supervision, an archbishop could have “hidden” $130 million, is beyond ridiculous.
I do want you to know that, when I arrived as archbishop, the financials showed that parishes had $70 million of their peoples’ money on deposit with the archdiocese. This was not archdiocesan money at all, but belonged to parishes. That’s why the finance council, and our outside professional auditors, advised me that it was inappropriate for the archdiocese to hold money for parishes, and that it should be returned to the parishes to which it belonged anyway. This was done, and publicly reported in the annual audit.
So much for “hidden funds.” Far from inappropriate, this decision was virtuous, open, and in accord with the clear directives of the professionals on our finance council and outside auditors.
The archdiocese of Milwaukee has issued an enlightening statement speculating that this lawyer’s reckless charges also included “hiding” the “cemetery fund,” which, of course, by state law, is scrupulously protected, and cannot be touched or transferred by anybody.
So, these silly charges are baloney. Unfortunately, this man got the attention he wanted and has come to expect from the news, tarnishing the good name of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, and of me. Some of our priests reported that people at Sunday Mass asked them “Why did Archbishop Dolan hide those funds?”
Lord knows I’ve made mistakes, but “hiding” $130 million is hardly one of them!
P.S. The Catholic League issued a statement on this matter today. You can read it here.
SNAP is losing credibility by the minute. Whatever good intentions started this group have gone to the wayside, or worse, to the lawyers.
Catholic League defends Dolan against SNAP attack
Catholic League president Bill Donohue defended New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan today:Catholic League
Jeffrey Anderson, who has made a killing suing the Catholic Church, is angry there isn't more money in the Milwaukee Archdiocese for him to milk. Now he is pointing his finger at the one Milwaukee archbishop who did more to render justice than any of his predecessors, Timothy Dolan (he headed the Milwaukee Archdiocese from 2002-2009).
Anderson wants to know why the Milwaukee Archdiocese moved $75 million to the parishes in 2004. Because it was held as an investment account for the parishes and was returned to them. That's why. If this is illegal, then Anderson will need an army of lawyers: huge transfers of funds take place every day in religious and secular institutions. Only those with base motives just assume wrongdoing.
Anderson also wants to know why $55 million was moved to a cemetery trust in 2008, a year after a Wisconsin court said victims could sue for fraud. Actually, the cemetery transfer took place in 2007, and was entirely consistent with previous practices: the cemetery trust existed, de facto, since the early 1900s and was not formalized until 2007.
Assisting Anderson in this witch hunt is Los Angeles lawyer, Gillian Brown. She is cut from the same cloth: on Friday, she got so out of hand in her rambling attacks that presiding Assistant U.S. Trustee, David Asbach, had to put the arm on her. As if we needed any further proof of the vindictiveness at play, Brown asked about the monetary value of the bishops' rings and crosses. This is exactly the kind of shakedown we would expect from the likes of Anderson and Brown.
SNAP, the professional victims' group, is salivating again. And no wonder: their latest 990 tax return shows they're in big trouble—their revenues are plummeting and they're operating in the red. So they badly need Anderson to grease them again. They are incapable of being shamed.
SNAP Attorney Wants to Question Archbishop Dolan
MILWAUKEE - An attorney representing victims of sexual abuse in Milwaukee wants to question former Milwaukee and current New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan in connection with money for lawsuit settlements.TMJ4
The lawyer says Dolan may have been responsible for hiding tens of millions of dollars in the archdiocese when he was in charge in Milwaukee for seven years.
Dolan responded, calling the allegations ridiculous.
"I find that there's $70 million that didn't belong to the diocese, but belonging to parishes who were saving it with the Archdiocese," said Dolan.
"My finances department said I needed to return that to the parishes, (and it) should not be under the Archdiocese."
Critics question how any money was able to be moved considering the Archdiocese was considering filing for bankruptcy.
Yep, and the pope and Jesus Christ and .... it was Anderson who pushed the dioceses into bankruptcy in the first place.
The Irish Times: Dolan, Callahan to assist with Irish Church visitation
The visitation teams to Ireland are made up mainly of sons of the Irish diaspora. Included are two cardinals, five archbishops, three bishops, the head of a seminary in Rome and the head of a seminary in London. Four teams have been sent to each of Ireland’s four Catholic archdioceses, a fifth will visit Irish seminaries and houses of formation, while a sixth and seventh team will conduct visitations to the religious congregations.The Irish Times
The Archbishop of Boston, Cardinal Seán O’Malley, leads the visitation team to Dublin’s archdiocese. Accompanying him are Barbara Thorp, director of the office for pastoral support and child protection in Boston, Fr John Connolly, special assistant to the cardinal, and lawyer Thomas Hannigan.
They arrived in Dublin on November 14th, stayed five days then and returned last weekend.
On March 6th, the Archbishop of Ottawa, Terence Prendergast, will resume a visitation to Tuam archdiocese which he began on December 13th last, when it lasted five days. He is accompanied by Fr James Conn, professor of Canon Law at the Gregorian University in Rome and at Boston College.
The visitation to Maynooth, St Malachy’s in Belfast, the Irish College in Rome, the Milltown Institute and All Hallows in Dublin, takes place from January 31st to February 7th. It will be led by the archbishop of New York and new president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, Timothy Dolan.
He will be accompanied by the Archbishop of Baltimore (Maryland), Edwin O’Brien; the Bishop of Juneau (Alaska), Edward Burns; the Bishop of La Crosse (Wisconsin), William Callahan; the Bishop of Gaylord (Michigan), Bernard Hebda; and Msgr Francis Kelly, rector, Casa Santa Maria (the North American College), Rome. Fr Dennis McManus and Fr James Cruz, will assist.
Archbishop Dolan calls for abortion "reduction"
New York TimesArchbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York joined other local religious leaders on Thursday in calling for a new effort to reduce the number of abortions in the city. The annual figure has averaged 90,000 in recent years, or about 40 percent of all pregnancies, twice the national rate.
Archbishop Timothy Dolan and Rabbi David Zwiebel at a meeting at the Penn Club in Manhattan.
The archbishop, at a news conference in Manhattan, called the citywide statistics “downright chilling.”
But while holding to the conviction that abortion is morally wrong, Archbishop Dolan and the others said they were adopting a more pragmatic goal for New York than abolishing abortion: “Let’s see to it that abortion is rare,” he said.
I wonder what the response would be if Archbishop Dolan called for clergy sexual abuse of minors to be "rare."
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Bp Callahan elected to nat'l Catholic Relief Services board
Whispersthe bishops also elected four bishops to the [Catholic Relief Services] board: Bishop William Callahan, OFM Conv., of La Crosse, Wisconsin, Bishop Frank Dewane of Venice, Florida, Archbishop Michael Sheehan of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Bishop John Wester of Salt Lake City. Archbishop Sheehan and Bishop Wester were reelected to a second term.
He of course will be working with his former Archbishop.
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Dolan elected president of the USCCB
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MilNewsBuzz: Is Milwaukee’s priest shortage slowing?
Church officials are hoping an increase in the number of priests graduating from the Milwaukee Archdiocese’s St. Francis de Sales Seminary will help slow Milwaukee’s growing priest shortage. But it might not be enough as priests ordained during the 1960s and 1970s, when the church experienced tremendous growth, begin to retire.MilNewsBuzz
The Archdiocese, which spans 210 parishes in ten counties in Southeastern Wisconsin, greeted the ordination of six seminary graduates last year as the sudden reversal of a long drought. It was the largest class to graduate in 17 years. Previous classes produced just one or even no new priests. [Want to know why? Read Good Bye, Good Men]
This year, the seminary ordained almost as many new clergy for the Archdiocese. Five graduates were ordained. Father Don Hying, seminary rector, says he expects six ordinations next year, then five and potentially a record seven in 2013. They would be arriving just in time, as retirements continue to drive down the ranks of clergy in Milwaukee and around the country. [Lets do some math. Arch Dolan arrived in Milwaukee in 2002. It takes about 8 years of schooling. Yes that's about right]
“We’re still going to decline in numbers, especially when those ordained in the 1960s and 1970s retire or die,” he says. “We’re going to go down from where we are, but if we can continue to ordain six to 10 men a year, it will stabilize.”
For the past two years, for each priest who has retired or died, another has come in to take his place. But about five percent of the Archdiocese’s parishes lack a priest, according to Hying. Elsewhere in the country, particularly in rural areas, the figure is several times higher. [A tribute to the faith of the Milwaukee area Catholic community]
The national priest shortage was first studied in detail in the 1990s by a UW-Madison sociologist and former priest, Richard Schoenherr, who predicted, with the help of a team of researchers at a collaborator at Brigham Young University, that priests assigned to a diocese would drop 40 percent between 1966 and 2005. The estimate has largely proven accurate and was later extended to predict a 46 percent drop by 2015. [No really, read Good Bye, Good Men. Liberals purposefully withheld non-liberal men from seminary and hoped a "shortage" of priests would bring about ordination of women and the Christ-like discipline of priestly celibacy.]
The reasons fewer are entering the priesthood are varied. High recruitment that began in the Great Depression and continued through World War II, the 1960 and the 1970s has proven impossible to sustain. (In 1956, the St. Francis seminary graduated 48 priests.) Some have blamed the clergy abuse scandals of more recent years. [No, no, really. If you want the answers read it.]
“We’re going through a paradigm shift in many ways, not just in religion but in politics, economics; everything is fundamentally shifting in many ways,” Hying says. “Men becoming priests today is much more a radical choice because it’s not something necessarily supported by the culture.” [... Umm, I'm pretty sure Catholics have never been embraced with open arms in this country. Ever heard of the Know-Nothings?]
In Milwaukee and around the country, mass attendance and the church’s reputation took major hits following the abuse scandals. In 2006, Milwaukee Magazine reported that parishioner attendance at weekend mass in the Archdiocese had dropped from 40 percent in the early 1990s to just 29 percent. Donations declined as well. [If I was a parishioner of St John's Cathedral, I'm not sure I could still go to Mass either]
Is marriage the answer?
Some argue that relaxing rules on celibacy within the Roman Catholic Church and allowing priests to marry would alleviate the clergy shortage. [How are priestly numbers for Eastern Catholics whom have always had the option of marriage?]
Generally, a man cannot enter the priesthood if he intends to marry. But there’s an exception. Since the 1980s, if a married man has been previously ordained within another Christian religion, he can apply to become a Catholic priest. The applications are considered on a case-by-case basis. Some say[who?] the exception was created in response to a decline in priests entering seminaries.
Father Martin Barnum of Mundelein Seminary in Chicago estimates there are only about 250 married Catholic priests in the nation. There are none in the Milwaukee Archdiocese, he says, and none in the Chicago Archdiocese either. [And Milwaukee's numbers are better than the national average... so go figure]
But Milwaukee had one in 2008. Father Michael Scheip, a former Lutheran minister who became a priest in 1992, came to the Milwaukee Archdiocese in 2008 from Florida with a wife and five boys. Scheip served in the Archdiocese for about a year then returned to Florida, reportedly because he didn’t like the winters here. [A witch hunt for married clergy? I wonder if that works for liberal clergy as well....]
David Backes, a UW-Milwaukee journalism professor and a deacon within the Archdiocese, says the issue is larger than the question of celibacy. “We’d get more (priests) if they could marry[I sincerely doubt it], but if you look at some of the main line Protestants that have married clergy and women pastors, their numbers have been shrinking too. It’s a larger problem of commitment,” he says. [Great point]
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