Timothy Dolan
3 faith questions changed newsman David Gregory’s life
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — September 14, 2015
(RNS) His book "How's Your Faith?" shares his path to a deeper sense of his Jewish spiritual life.
Is the US a model of interfaith harmony for a violent world?
By David Gibson — April 1, 2015
NEW YORK (RNS) A rabbi, a minister, an imam and a cardinal walked into ... a radio studio for a serious discussion on religious tensions.
Debate over gays in St. Patrick’s parades roils Irish on big day
By David Gibson — March 16, 2015
NEW YORK (RNS) The New York parade marches down Fifth Avenue on Tuesday (March 17), the saint’s feast day, and Cardinal Timothy Dolan is facing renewed calls from conservative Catholics to step down as grand marshal.
Cardinal Dolan’s cemetery deal smacked down
By Mark Silk — March 13, 2015
Or, how to drag the church into disrepute.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan denounces Paris attacks, says satirists not to blame
By David Gibson — January 13, 2015
NEW YORK (RNS) The archbishop of New York seemed to part ways with another prominent New York Catholic, Bill Donohue of the Catholic League, who essentially said Charlie Hebdo editors had brought on their own slaughter.
Can Cardinal Timothy Dolan be Gotham’s peacemaker?
By David Gibson — December 31, 2014
NEW YORK (RNS) In an evocative homily in St. Patrick’s Cathedral the day after two NYPD officers were shot dead, Cardinal Timothy Dolan spoke powerfully of his own anguish and his “worry about a city tempted to tension and division.”
Cardinal Timothy Dolan cuts ties with anti-abortion crusader Frank Pavone
By David Gibson — December 15, 2014
NEW YORK (RNS) For decades, the outspoken Rev. Frank Pavone has often clashed as much with his own bishops as he has with abortion-rights foes.
Hey, Pope Francis, over here. No, over HERE … US cities vie for pope’s attention
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — December 11, 2014
(RNS) Look to the border, most RNS readers say in our unscientific survey on where Pope Francis should visit in the U.S.
U.S. Catholic bishops grapple with adapting their agenda to Pope Francis’ priorities
By David Gibson — November 10, 2014
BALTIMORE (RNS) Pope Francis' change in focus has unsettled a number of American bishops more used to a hierarchy oriented toward hot-button culture war issues. Adapting to a new agenda is the focus of this week's bishops' meeting.
NY archdiocese, one of the world’s grandest, shrinks
By David Gibson — November 3, 2014
NEW YORK, N.Y. (RNS) The downsizing in New York is not unique: Dioceses across the Northeast and Midwest that were once the cradle of U.S. Catholicism are facing declining donations and participation in church life.
Sparring continues as Catholic bishops prepare synod’s final report
By Josephine McKenna — October 17, 2014
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Even as work on the synod's final report continued, German Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich put homosexuality back on the agenda telling reporters “exclusion” was not part of the Catholic Church.
US archbishop urges both sides to cool down at Vatican
By Josephine McKenna — October 15, 2014
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville, Ky., president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, stressed that a working document on family issues released on Monday (Oct. 13) is simply that -- a draft.
Conservatives insist Vatican isn’t changing teaching on gays or divorced Catholics
By Josephine McKenna — October 14, 2014
VATICAN CITY (RNS) In what looked like strenuous damage control, the Vatican’s chief spokesman told a packed media conference Tuesday that this was a “working document, not a final document.”
Catholic League drops out of St. Patrick’s Day parade over row about gays
By David Gibson — September 12, 2014
NEW YORK (RNS) The Catholic League will not march in the St. Patrick’s Day parade down Fifth Avenue, and Cardinal Timothy Dolan is still taking most of the heat.
Are Catholic conservatives turning on Cardinal Timothy Dolan?
By David Gibson — September 5, 2014
NEW YORK (RNS) Cardinal Timothy Dolan's positive reaction to this week's decision by organizers of New York's annual St. Patrick's Day parade to allow gay groups to march initially drew charitable responses. Then some Catholics turned.
