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NEW YORK,  - Timothy Dolan , who as Archbishop of New York and president of the U.S. Bishops’ conference has emerged as one of the nation’s most prominent life and marriage defenders, is to be named a cardinal. Pope Benedict XVI announced Friday that Dolan, the leader of 2.6 million Catholics in New York, would rise to the rank held by most of his predecessors, including pro-life champion Cardinal John O’Connor . Dolan was appointed alongside 21 other new cardinals announced today. “As a kid, I just wanted to be a parish priest,” Dolan said at a news conference at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan. “And to think that now the pope has named me a cardinal— that’s awesome.” Dolan said he was “honored, humbled, and grateful” for the elevation. A proven leader on the abortion issue, Dolan has consistently spoken out against the evil of abortion, telling a reporter  in 2010 that being opposed to abortion, “is a civil rights issue, it’s a natural law issue, it’s not a Catholic issue.”

NEW YORK, NY, November 25, 2011 - In the aftermath of the legalization of gay “ marriage ” in New York state , some commentators had wondered why, despite their leadership role in the fight against the law, the state’s Catholic bishops ’ efforts had ultimately seemed so strangely half-hearted, given the high stakes. One of these was gay activist Terence Weldon. Writing after the vote at the blog “Queering the Church ,” he said: “the really interesting thing about the Catholic bishops and NY gay marriage is not how vigorously they fought against it (as the headlines would have it), but how lukewarm this opposition was overall, and how calm they have been in response.” Weldon pointed out that of 21 bishops in the state, he could only think of two who had taken any public steps to fight the gay “marriage” law - Archbishop Timothy Dolan and Bishop Nicholas DiMazio. Overall he described the response of the bishops to the passage of the law as “muted and moderate.” It is a puzzling ques