Comments on: Respect Life Week

By: Sister Loretta O'Reilly, SJH

Sister Loretta O'Reilly, SJH — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:58:17 +0000

Know that I pray for you often Archbishop Dolan. I enjoy your blog and commend you for your constant stand for the pro-life culture. May the Lord continue to speak to you as you walk this walk of protecting God’s children! Your strength of character to keep on speaking the truth to your people is a great encouragement to me.

God continue to give you the strength to stay on this course till our country turns around and accepts the Culture of Life!
Sincerely,
Sister Loretta O’Reilly, SJH

By: Tony Felicissimo

Tony Felicissimo — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 21:15:22 +0000

On behalf of the Advocates of Life I would like to thank Archbishop Dolan for his presence and talk at the event. Events like these remind the community of the importance of protecting human life – especially when it is government officials, such as Mayor Amicone, who sponsor it. The struggle to restore a culture of life is has been long and arduous but the involvement of our Archbishop in this issue reinvigorates those of us on the front lines. Archbishop Dolan please know how much your presence and words meant to us on Sunday! You are the Successor of the Apostles in our midst and we continue to pray for you that the Lord may give you the wisdom and courage to lead us to Himself!

By: Larry

Larry — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:04:54 +0000

I’d like to add a strong second to Mr. Piacente’s post, and also say that I’m envious of the fact that he had the chance to personally confront the Archbishop of New York over the catechetical disaster that is American Catholicism. I myself expressed much the same thing in person to one of the associate bishops of the Chicago Archdiocese more than a year ago. I’ve also written to several bishops–of course you never can tell whether your letter was ever read. In my favorite fantasy, I am talking at length about this problem while giving a speech before a group of American bishops. Fat chance that will ever happen in reality! I can tell you that I personally know a Lutheran woman, widow of a Catholic husband, who has two grown children raised as Catholics. Although she does not believe in Catholic tenets, nonetheless she told me that she undertook herself to educate her children in CATHOLIC (not Lutheran) doctrine when she learned that despite having gone to parish catechism classes, her young man and lady had never HEARD of Purgatory! Imagine that. A Lutheran finds herself teaching Catholic catechism to Catholic youths, because their own Catholic so-called teachers never did! To Abp Dolan: if you are tempted to think that Mr. Piacente is exaggerating things, I assure you, sir, that if anything, he is UNDER-stating the problem!

By: Christine from Racine

Christine from Racine — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:49:10 +0000

Just to say to Archbishop Dolan that we in the Milwaukee Archdiocese are still looking on from afar and are so proud of your leadership and example. I hope your pierogies and kielbasa were as good as ours on Mitchell St. back in the ‘old neighborhood’!

By: Andrew Piacente

Andrew Piacente — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:18:21 +0000

I was there too. In fact I finally ran into the Archbishop in the lobby and finally got to tell him about the most important subject under the sun for the Church. Education. I begged him to help us.

Catholics are woefully unchatechized. We live in a catechetical wasteland with modernism permeating almost every nook and cranny. The problem is massive. I see it at work, out of work, in my family and esp. at every funeral and wedding I attend. We are dying out here Your Excellency. Please help us.

Without an education and properly formed Catholic, all of this is a waste of time.

Does anyone realize that it took an awful lot of so called Catholics to elect the most pro abortion President and NY Governor in history.

We will all be asked what we did when the time comes. What wil you say?