Timothy Dolan

Backlash to trans activist’s St. Patrick’s funeral reveals deep fault lines

By Aleja Hertzler-McCain — February 23, 2024
(RNS) — Both Cecilia Gentili’s friends and family and Cardinal Timothy Dolan said they felt 'disrespect' from the other group.

Pope Francis appoints men and women to build a synodal church

By Thomas Reese — July 10, 2023
(RNS) — These recent appointments show that Francis now understands that 'personnel is policy.'

Who will take Pope Francis seriously on gender ideology?

By Charles C. Camosy — March 31, 2023
(RNS) — How to reduce the cynical atmosphere that has greeted the upcoming synod.

Is the FBI coming after traditional Catholics?

By Thomas Reese — March 2, 2023
(RNS) — The FBI is worried violent extremists will exploit and recruit radical-traditionalist Catholics.

Why the LDS and Catholic churches parted ways on the Respect for Marriage Act

By Mark Silk — December 12, 2022
(RNS) — They understand the world, and their place in it, differently.

In ruling for the praying football coach, what did the Supreme Court really say?

By Thomas Reese — August 10, 2022
(RNS) — Does the decision protect private, personal prayer, or is it the camel’s nose for more prayer in schools?

New York governor, clergy and ambassadors join Orthodox leaders to pray for Ukraine

By Jack Jenkins — March 9, 2022
(RNS) — ‘As I hear the prayers and I see the pain and sense the weeping in your hearts for the people left behind, I also sense defiance in your souls,’ said New York Gov. Kathy Hochul.

Across US, worshippers seek solidarity at Ukrainian churches, pray for peace

By Emily McFarlan Miller, Kathryn Post, and Renée Roden — February 28, 2022
CHICAGO (RNS) — In cities with some of the largest Ukrainian populations in the United States, worshippers prayed for peace and an end to war Sunday (Feb. 27) as Russia threatened its western neighbor for the fourth straight day.

Evidence of Dorothy Day’s ‘everyday’ sainthood heads to Rome, boxed and beribboned

By Renée Roden — December 9, 2021
NEW YORK (RNS) — In a Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan gave a formal sendoff for two decades of work by Day’s supporters.

Vatican exonerates Brooklyn bishop accused of sexual abuse

By Bobby Caina Calvan — September 2, 2021
NEW YORK (AP) — The Vatican has closed its investigation into allegations made separately by two men, who accused the bishop, Nicholas DiMarzio, of abusing them a half-century ago when he was a priest in New Jersey.

Biden signals willingness to dialogue with bishops and other faith leaders

By Thomas Reese — February 17, 2021
(RNS) — Melissa Rogers, restored to the White House faith partnerships office, listens to all sides of a dispute.

Dorothy Day — ‘a saint for our times’

By Sandra Yocum — December 5, 2018
(The Conversation) — Dorothy Day, who died 38 years ago this week, was able to discern beauty in the midst of her harsh and demanding life. In that, she has a lesson for the times we live in.

Cardinal hires judge to review church sex abuse policies

By The Associated Press — September 20, 2018
NEW YORK (AP) — Timothy Dolan announced the appointment of Barbara Jones on Thursday (Sept. 20), saying many Catholics had told him they were feeling let down by the church's hierarchy.

Retired Cardinal McCarrick pulled from ministry after sex abuse claim deemed credible

By Jack Jenkins — June 20, 2018
(RNS) — A sexual abuse allegation made against a top retired U.S. Catholic cleric, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, has been deemed 'credible and substantiated' by church authorities, who ordered McCarrick to cease all public activities.

Cardinal Dolan makes good points but ignores politics of abortion

By Thomas Reese — June 14, 2018
(RNS) — While Cardinal Dolan and I agree that the bishops are consistently pro-life, other groups, including many Republican politicians, are only pro-life when it comes to restricting abortion, not when it comes to government programs to help women.
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