Powerful opponents of health care for all would use the Catholic Church to destroy the ACA, rather than amending it. Would you support the principle of universal health care, if the ACA were amended to protect religious institutions and to ensure that the right to life was upheld? The thought that children can be born sick and never be given a chance to thrive breaks my heart, and I cannot just sit by.

Please, if you would support an amended ACA, please say so. If my voice were loud enough, I’d say it myself, but you would be heard. Thank you, and God bless you.

I am praying for Mr. Obama’s conversion, for all the Catholics who hold public office who have betrayed, and continue to betray the Catholic Church, and for all the members of the Catholic Church who refuse to be obedient to the teachings of the Catholic Church, and for my own conversion of heart, that I may be more obedient to God in everything.

I am also heartened by the stands and frank guidance of quite a few of the U.S. Catholic Bishops in regards to who and what faithful Catholics may legitimately vote for in such an election as the one we have facing us. Cardinal Dolan could you add your voice again to those of these courageous Bishops? Could you clearly speak out and let all Catholics know that they cannot support a candidate who supports abortion on demand in all nine months of pregnancy, and at times even infanticide, that they cannot support a candidate that wishes to impose Catholic funding of contraception, abortifacients (abortion, forced contraception, sterilization and forced abortion, like what we see in China, being just down the road)? Will you speak strongly and clearly and tell Catholics they cannot support a candidate who supports the destruction of human embryos for scientific research? Who supports human cloning? Who supports euthanasia? Will you speak out clearly and strongly and tell Catholics that we cannot support a candidate who supports defiance of God’s plan of traditional marriage? Will you speak out clearly and strongly and tell Catholics we cannot support a candidate who ignores our right to religious freedom, second only to our God given right to life? Will you speak out clearly and strongly, Cardinal Dolan, on all of these issues, letting Catholics know they cannot support candidates who support the above issues and remain within good standing in the Catholic Church, and with God’s grace, do everything within your power to get your message to every Catholic in our land before November 6th?

My prayers are with you and with all of our Bishops, Priests, Deacons, lay leaders and lay Catholics. Let this time be an opportunity for us to grow in holiness through obedience to God in ALL things.

Sincerely in Christ,

Jan England
Antelope, CA9

I would like him to reconsider how the Al Smith Dinner will be handled with regards to presidential candidates in the future. Many of us were concerned about how photo ops would be exploited. Unfortunately, “Catholics for Obama” has done just that. They have cropped out Mitt Romney and now prominently display, on their homepage, a photo of Cardinal Dolan laughing with President Obama.

https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/the-city-gates.cfm?id=429

In the future, the Archdiocese of New York should consider raising funds without inviting presidential candidates because of the way photo ops can be exploited. There were also many Catholics shown at that dinner on TV -journalists – who openly advocate for things like abortion on national TV.

The way to solve it is just stop inviting presidential candidates. Some traditions may need to come to an end. If a presidential candidate advanced white supremacy, there is no doubt in my mind that the Archdiocese of New York would not invite such a candidate or sitting president. But when the matter concerns abortion or same-sex, so-called, “marriage,” it seems not to matter.