Clare~Therese Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 Woohoo Cardinal Dolan!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG45 Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 [img]https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/546149_3171628068596_1899980378_n.jpg[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mysisterisalittlesister Posted September 9, 2012 Share Posted September 9, 2012 This guy rocks my socks. And he gives seriously epic bear hugs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmaberry Posted September 9, 2012 Share Posted September 9, 2012 (edited) This is so GREAT! I was just saying the other day that we need someone in the Church like Mother Teresa, after reading her 1994 speech from the National Prayer Breakfast (with the Clintons front and center) where she waltzed in, denounced abortion and contraception as the gravest sins of today, and spoke about NFP as if she did this kind of thing every morning. She did the same with almost every public speech of hers in a place where abortion was 'safe and legal.' I will admit, I was confused and losing my confidence in Cardinal Dolan after he invited Obama to a dinner, where I figured Obama would get a bunch of pictures taken of him and Dolan in the hopes of convincing the public that the current administration is on good terms with the Church. Shows how much I know! Dolan rocked this! A real Mother Teresa for today's issues. May God bless him, and let us remember to pray for him as someone in his position bravely standing up for the truth is surely being assailed by the forces of evil. Edited September 9, 2012 by emmaberry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i<3franciscans Posted September 9, 2012 Author Share Posted September 9, 2012 [quote name='mysisterisalittlesister' timestamp='1347157255' post='2480421'] This guy rocks my socks. And he gives seriously epic bear hugs [/quote]I second that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Knight Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 Where did you find this.. [quote name='BG45' timestamp='1347130081' post='2480326'] [img]https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/546149_3171628068596_1899980378_n.jpg[/img] [/quote] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG45 Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 Facebook Can't figure out who originally made it though, because it was a repost there as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papist Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 [quote name='arfink' timestamp='1347050043' post='2479972'] How did he even get in there?? I would think they'd never allow it. [/quote] All the delegates voted to not have Cardinal Dolan do the closing prayer. DNC leaders ignored the vote and let him do it anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i<3franciscans Posted September 11, 2012 Author Share Posted September 11, 2012 [quote name='Papist' timestamp='1347285461' post='2480967'] All the delegates voted to not have Cardinal Dolan do the closing prayer. DNC leaders ignored the vote and let him do it anyway. [/quote]That's amesome. They knew what was coming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missionseeker Posted September 11, 2012 Share Posted September 11, 2012 They were definitely booing him though. Classy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Didacus Posted September 11, 2012 Share Posted September 11, 2012 [quote name='BG45' timestamp='1347130081' post='2480326'] [img]https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/546149_3171628068596_1899980378_n.jpg[/img] [/quote] Now that's just brilliant!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhuturePriest Posted September 11, 2012 Share Posted September 11, 2012 I think this is one of the proudest moments for the Catholic Church in American history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4588686 Posted September 11, 2012 Share Posted September 11, 2012 (edited) No. The proudest moments for the Catholic Church in American history were the various moments in the life of Dorothy Day. This was a man allowing himself to be tokenized so he could look good to people who already like him and the democrat party could make a play for socially conservative democrats. Two parties, supposedly antagonistic, using each other to advance their power. Edited September 11, 2012 by Hasan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmaberry Posted September 11, 2012 Share Posted September 11, 2012 (edited) [quote name='Hasan' timestamp='1347338251' post='2481226'] No. The proudest moments for the Catholic Church in American history were the various moments in the life of Dorothy Day. This was a man allowing himself to be tokenized so he could look good to people who already like him and the democrat party could make a play for socially conservative democrats. Two parties, supposedly antagonistic, using each other to advance their power. [/quote] I don't know-I thought this as well when I first heard he was going to do (?) benediction at the DNC. You could be right, but I recently watched a video of Mother Teresa doing something similar at the National Prayer Breakfast when Clinton was in office, and that was a proud moment for Catholics. It seems that if we discount Dolan in this situation, we need to discount Mother Teresa for tokenizing herself as well. Edited September 11, 2012 by emmaberry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nihil Obstat Posted September 11, 2012 Share Posted September 11, 2012 Iunno. Maybe I am biased, but I see it more as a man desperately trying to inject some morality, [i]on both sides mind you[/i], into a soulless den of vipers. He is looking at two sides of the same corrupt coin and, keeping in mind that it is his most solemn mission to save souls, he is going there hoping that maybe, just maybe he can get through to one or two people. Yeah they are trying to use him to score cheap points. Absolutely they are. But that does not make his attempt any less praiseworthy. Misguided? We could quibble on that. I am inclined to say no, because if it is anybody's job to challenge them directly it is his. But obviously he is not going to be invited in the first place if he calls them all out as the lying thieving murderers they are. I believe that for him it is about saving souls. I believe he is taking seriously his role as a pastor. If I have to out-cynicize you, Hasan, this is the only way I can do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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