tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9598208.post335287453542667441..comments2024-03-17T16:56:21.897-05:00Comments on The Awareness Center, Inc. (International Jewish Coaltion Against Sexual Assault): Sexual Predators or Children?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9598208.post-13079655821333406842012-05-26T23:26:20.266-05:002012-05-26T23:26:20.266-05:00Timothy Dolan
By Jon Meacham
TIME Magazine - Wedne...Timothy Dolan<br />By Jon Meacham<br />TIME Magazine - Wednesday, Apr. 18, 2012<br />http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2111975_2111976_2111989,00.html<br /><br />With his crimson cassock, wide grin and rotund good cheer, Timothy Dolan, 62, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York, seems a figure out of the age of the old movies Going My Way and The Bells of St. Mary's — a warm prelate who leads his flock more by charm than fiat.<br /><br />Yet in 2012, this priest with a mien dating back half a century did something few other American Roman Catholic leaders have managed in recent times: he put himself and his church back in the center of the national political conversation, a public square long dominated by Protestant evangelicals.<br /><br />In leading the opposition to a proposed Obama Administration rule that would have required Catholic organizations like hospitals to pay for contraceptive services for female employees, Dolan successfully argued that such a policy violated the nation's principles of religious liberty.<br /><br />From his headquarters in New York City's St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dolan, who arrived there after serving as Archbishop of Milwaukee, offers a nuanced Christian witness, reaching out to Jews and Muslims and urging his own faith to re-evangelize itself before assuming that the rest of the world will open its head and heart to the Catholic message.<br /><br />"The public square in the United States is always enriched whenever people approach it when they're inspired by their deepest-held convictions," he told Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation on Easter Sunday. "And on the other hand... I think the public square is impoverished when people might be coerced to put a piece of duct tape over their mouth, keeping them from bringing their deepest-held convictions to the conversation." That's not a problem Cardinal Dolan seems to have.<br /><br />Meacham, a Pulitzer Prize winner, is the author of American Gospel and a forthcoming biography of Thomas JeffersoThe Awareness Center, Inc.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09617711267681978312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9598208.post-63144879471659097742012-05-26T15:13:15.796-05:002012-05-26T15:13:15.796-05:00rabbi David Zweibel, president of Agudath Israel o...rabbi David Zweibel, president of Agudath Israel of America. <br /><br />Does anyone know the name of the priest?Vicki Polinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05442843248040298676noreply@blogger.com