Comments on: To Whom Shall We Go?

By: Christene Holmstrom

Christene Holmstrom — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:53:21 +0000

Great Post, I was wondering did you hear that Israel has banned the Ipad? seems the signal strength is a violation or so they say.

By: Peter R.

Peter R. — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:32:34 +0000

I agree with Danny, avoiding the fact that the abused have been given a cold shoulder only adds injury to insult.

By: Cindy Schwirtz

Cindy Schwirtz — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 02:00:01 +0000

My prayers for our Blessed Pope Benedict. Watching EWTN on Good Friday shows that our good and loving Pope has aged since I saw him in Rome last June. Satan is at work here as usual and all of these news stations should be ashamed for their cruel and relentless attacks. Let’s all pray for our Pope and all the clergy!

In Jesus and Mary,

Cindy Schwirtz

By: Mitchell Brousard

Mitchell Brousard — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 04:07:30 +0000

Thank you Your Excellency,

I had an idea in my prayer today (for whatever it might be worth): I would suggest Your Excellency and your brother bishops call for a boycott of the NYT and their advertisers. Their advertisers can be listed on the web and folks can look them up with, perhaps, suggestions of alternative vendors they can patron.

Perhaps it could begin with the New York Times Company and their affiliates.

From what I recall, the archbishops of Philly and New York did this in regard to immoral movies in the 1930′s with great success. I threw idea out there on Facebook today and our fellow Catholics loved the idea. We’re all pretty tired of this stuff.

Continued Prayers,

Mitchell Brousard

P.S. My own suspicion is all of this attention has something to do with a desire to silence the bishops regarding the health care bill.

By: Sabrina

Sabrina — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 02:31:03 +0000

I thought your blog entry was excellent. Dowd and her ilk are arrogant and self-serving. I seriously question whether they truly care about the victims of child sexual abuse or if they are merely jumping on an opportunity to run roughshod over Catholics. I find it just incredulous that they seem to think that each and every single Catholic is to blame for the sins of a few…and then of course to them the only answer is for the Church to cease to exist. Some of them definitely have a hidden agenda…and the NY Times and other papers allow it. In my archdiocese, Portland, our bishop John Vlazny cancelled his subscription to the Oregonian because they published an anti-Catholic cartoon. If the Oregonian had done that with a Muslim, they would be putting their lives in danger. Yet, they think it’s ok to take a poke at the Church and we’re not to say a mumblin’ word? All 1 Billion of us are supposed to hang our heads in shame and walk out to join some fundamentalist church or perhaps join up with the secular humanists who want to destroy any sort of spirituality in this world? What a sick fantasy some of them have. No, if anything, we Catholics need to stay stronger than ever…and while we do continue to insist on keeping the church Pure and ridding them of those priests, and religious who would wilfully disobey God’s law and corrupt the innocenct…but we also need to be supportive of those priests and religious who are doing their very best to obey God’s law and honor their vow of chastity/celibacy…and I for one will be staying to do just that.

By: Patrick Stinson

Patrick Stinson — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:07:03 +0000

Your Excellency, Archbishop Dolan: The current situation is one more reminder of why all the faithful need to pray for the Holy Father and all priests, particularly in this Year of the Priest and continue to do so even after the special year ends. The devil will always target priests hoping to snare a few and scatter their flock. The devil will also feed the pride of journalists to goad them into seeking investigative renown over adherence to fair reporting standards and spin the most destorted versions of the facts to do the most damage possible over the widest area. The battle between good and evil with the fate of individual souls in the balance is a constant struggle that will not end until Our Lord comes again in glory.

By: Osvaldo Vallone

Osvaldo Vallone — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 15:16:18 +0000

Bravo, Archbishop Dolan!!!!!!

By: Todd

Todd — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 17:22:39 +0000

As this Holy Week draws to a close with Easter, I am reminded that Christ told His disciples that if the world hates them it is because they hated Him first. He said that they would be delivered into the hands of those who would also kill them. The vicar of Christ and his Church aren’t any different today than the Church was 2000 years ago as far as being subject to persecution is concerned. Our Holy Father has been a great ambassador in the ecumenical sense of reuniting Christians. I believe that the enemy isn’t sitting idly by as Anglicans prepare to be received into full communion with the Roman Church. The media in this case is just another marionette manipulated by a master puppeteer.

By: Angela Sullivan

Angela Sullivan — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:11:48 +0000

I was disgusted by The New York Times SLANDER of Pope Benedict XVI Who, in my humble opinion, is one of the greatest Pope’s we have ever had. I am a person who is very familiar with sexual abuse of children, as a student of psychology, I can honestly state that this is an epidemic, and The New York Times has failed to report the obvious. The highest amount of sexual abuse occurs among Parents and their own children.The New York Times has used “sexual abuse” as an excuse to attack the Church instead of reporting accurately on this terrible situation in our society. Jesus had his Judas, as Thee Church will have hers. The Church is being crucified for the sins of OTHERS, as Our Lord was. One only has to look at our Society and the Media Culture. Hollywood in my opinion is a haven of Pedophilia, the biggest promoters. The Holy Father has done everything to purify the Church, I personally believe that the state of the World is such due to us Catholics, We must Love The Bride Of Christ, not crucify her. I will pray for The Holy Father and The Bride Of Christ, The Catholic Church.

By: Fabio Juliano

Fabio Juliano — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:04:11 +0000

I feel that I must respond to the comment by Ms. Emma Clery above. She accuses Archbishop Dolan of responding to a “perceived threat” with “obfuscation”, when the New York Times and the rest of the media are just fulfilling their role to report on the world “under a hermeneutic of suspicion”.

However, the gist of His Excellency’s exceptionally well-reasoned opinion is that the New York Times is not treating this matter with any fairness or objectivity. He is, therefore, responding sensibly not just to a perceived threat but to outright hostility and libelous defamation.

As to the contention that it is somehow “insensitive” towards the victims to question the New York Times’ motive in rehashing this story, that simply makes no logical sense. The local press reported on this story more than adequately when it came out, for which we should be thankful, as the victims of the wolf in sheep’s clothing were entitled to have their story told, to just compensation and to all of our prayers. But it is hard to imagine how they are being helped by pretending that this is a new issue or that Pope Benedict XVI is involved.

Finally, the comment that it is “a challenge” for women to “try” to be “faithful Catholics” does seem to be an insinuation about sort of mistreatment of women by the Church. I cannot imagine to what Ms. Clery may refer, and while I sincerely pray that this sister of ours is not considering one of some 33,000 schismatic churches in existence, ultimately only God could stop her from doing so.