The NY Times City blog posted a partial transcript of the conference, filled with great quotes. I’ve posted some excerpts below, but hit the link to read the whole thing.
Also, very interesting to read some of the comments – the anti-Catholic animus among many is palpable.
Coincidentally enough, yesterday morning in the gym I watched Barry Lynn head of Americans United for Separation fo Church and State, saying “Bias against Catholics? What bias?”
Archbishop Dolan’s First News Conference – City Room Blog – NYTimes.com
Will he be a change agent?
The most scared responsibility that a bishop has, Tim, is to pass on the faith that remains changeless and has for 2,000 years. So in substance, Timothy, in the quality, no, I couldn’t change things if I wanted, because they’re not mine to change. I’ve often said our goal is to change our lives to be in conformity with Jesus’s church, not to change the teachings of Jesus’s church to be in conformity with what we want.
On Catholics leaving the Church
It’s very interested what you raised, in that what we see in the sociology of people that leave the church, many of them, most of them, … go to the evangelical mega-churches, where they find the preaching of the Bible, the Gospel, the teachings of Jesus, preached with particular vigor and clarity. I wonder if we have to examine our conscience as a church to say have we done that… or have we gotten a little too subjective… diluting, watering down the essentials of the faith.
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