Thank you for making us aware Cardinal Dolan wrote a blog post supporting gun control and the US under the rubric of “right to life.” I have a different interpretation of his post, given the beginning of the papal conclave. Maybe he is campaigning to be pope. A NY Times story sang his praises and included a picture of him kissing a baby. This blog post in support of gun control is the kind of thing many new bishops do when entering a diocese — putting out some human PR to create a good first impression before they get down to their agenda.
His profile story in the papabili series portrays him as a “happy warrior” for the Faith. Even his deposition in Milwaukee a few days before he left for Rome portrays him as a shrewd administrator who knows how to protect church funds from lawsuits while at the same time making public the names of priest molesters. The press proclaimed the later. It was only SNAP that revealed the former. Maybe he is the leader of the American delegation to Rome and was the brains behind the US bishops press briefings last week. It sounds to me like he has organized a shrewd campaign.
Another possibility is that Dolan is covering bases at home in NY by his blog post and his baby kissing for the NY Times. Sometimes locals don’t like it when they see their cardinal overseas a lot. Or maybe his campaign strategy offers plausible deniability in case people become concerned that he is campaigning to be elected pope.
Whatever he is up to, it seems clear to me that he is a PR savant. And that bothers me because it undermines his truthfulness for me. I don’t think we will get the straight story from him.
As a veteran of real military combat who used a miriad of high powered assault weapons I can attest to the "lurid fantasy" that permeates our culture of death. With some difficullty I pryed my 6 year old grandson away from his Lego, shoot everyone and thing Wii game recently. It is indeed frighting and very disconcerting, and clearly our "entertainment via sex charged violence" industry must deal with its participation in promoting this culture.
Thank you for making us aware Cardinal Dolan wrote a blog post supporting gun control and the US under the rubric of “right to life.” I have a different interpretation of his post, given the beginning of the papal conclave. Maybe he is campaigning to be pope. A NY Times story sang his praises and included a picture of him kissing a baby. This blog post in support of gun control is the kind of thing many new bishops do when entering a diocese — putting out some human PR to create a good first impression before they get down to their agenda.
His profile story in the papabili series portrays him as a “happy warrior” for the Faith. Even his deposition in Milwaukee a few days before he left for Rome portrays him as a shrewd administrator who knows how to protect church funds from lawsuits while at the same time making public the names of priest molesters. The press proclaimed the later. It was only SNAP that revealed the former. Maybe he is the leader of the American delegation to Rome and was the brains behind the US bishops press briefings last week. It sounds to me like he has organized a shrewd campaign.
Another possibility is that Dolan is covering bases at home in NY by his blog post and his baby kissing for the NY Times. Sometimes locals don’t like it when they see their cardinal overseas a lot. Or maybe his campaign strategy offers plausible deniability in case people become concerned that he is campaigning to be elected pope.
Whatever he is up to, it seems clear to me that he is a PR savant. And that bothers me because it undermines his truthfulness for me. I don’t think we will get the straight story from him.