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Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia WASHINGTON, January 13, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Leaders of some of the largest religious communities in the United States have joined together in an  open letter  to all Americans to voice their shared concern for marriage and religious freedom. The letter, titled “Marriage and Religious Freedom: Fundamental Goods That Stand or Fall Together,” was released January 12. It can be found at . Signatories include leaders from Anglican, Baptist , Catholic, Evangelical, Jewish, Lutheran , Mormon, and Pentecostal communities in the United States. Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan , archbishop of New York and president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops , was one of the four signing Catholic bishops. “Marriage and religious liberty are at a crisis point in the United States,” he said. “This letter is a sign of hope. Not only are tens of millions of believing citizens represented in the letter’s signatories, but the letter ...

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...

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...

Image via Wikipedia NEW YORK,  - Following the legalization of same-sex “marriage” in New York in June, Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan has issued an official statement banning the use of Roman Catholic churches , facilities or properties for homosexual “marriage” ceremonies. “No Catholic facility or property, including but not limited to parishes, missions, chapels, meeting halls, Catholic educational, health, or charitable institutions or benevolent orders, or any place dedicated, consecrated, or used for Catholic worship may be used for the solemnization or consecration of same-sex marriages ,” the  decree  states. Archbishop Timothy Dolan The decree also states: “No items dedicated, consecrated, or used for the celebration of Catholic liturgy or sacred worship, including but not limited to sacred vessels, vestments, liturgical books or other items may be used for the solemnization or celebration of a same-sex marriage.” The archbishop has further decreed that “ca...

NEW YORK, – An employee with the New York Archdiocese warned of an “impending persecution” after New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo called same-sex “marriage” opponents discriminatory and “ anti-American ” last week. Gov. Andrew Cuomo The governor, who was instrumental in the state’s passage of same-sex “marriage” in June, was asked at a New York Times forum which arguments against same-sex “marriage” he found compelling. “None,” he said.  “There is no answer from the opposition. There really isn’t.  Ultimately, it’s, ‘I want to discriminate.’ And that’s anti-New York. It’s anti-American.” Ed Mechmann of the Archdiocese of New York ’s Family Life Office said it is “chilling” that the state’s top official would declare such a large segment of the population as “political pariahs.” He warned Catholics of an “impending persecution,” saying that Cuomo has effectively “declared us to be enemies of the state and nation.” “In reality, Mr. Cuomo doesn’t just disagree with our arguments, h...

Image via Wikipedia When  Will & Grace  debuted in 1998, few could have imagined that scarcely a decade later, same-sex marriage would be regarded by many Americans as a constitutional right. Catholic Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York was no alarmist when he worried aloud that the next step in the marriage debate would be another redefinition to allow polygamy and infidelity. How did we get to this point? It began with making what was once marginalized and tolerated seem normal and mainstream by calling into question the very idea of norms. Pop culture excels at perpetuating this kind of relativism: gay characters were depicted as interchangeable with, if not superior to, their heterosexual counterparts. The message was clear: Only a bigot would make a fuss over homosexual behavior. This approach, while effective, was too slow for some activists. That led to the second part of the "how": the legal strategy. This strategy built on the foundation laid by abortion-right...

The head of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has expressed his “strong disappointment” in an open letter to the U.S. president over his policies that threaten true marriage and the traditional family. “Recent actions taken by your Administration … both escalate the threat to marriage and imperil the religious freedom of those who promote and defend marriage,” wrote New York’s Archbishop Dolan to President Obama on September 20th, 2011. “Mr. President, I respectfully urge you to push the reset button on your Administration‟s approach to DOMA,” wrote Archbishop Dolan to the president in a recent letter. This letter comes at a time when the Obama Administration has shifted  from not defending the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) to actively attacking the Act’s constitutionality. Just two months ago the Department of Justice (DoJ) filed a brief in Golinski v. U.S. Office of Personnel Management , arguing that DOMA should be struck down as a form of sexual orie...

Image via Wikipedia T he  Washington Post ’s culture critic, Philip Kennicott, recently took to the pages of his paper to note the “cognitive dissonance” between ingrained “habits of homophobia” in American culture, on the one hand, and a recognition that “overt bigotry is no longer acceptable in the public square,” on the other. As an example of those who resolve this dissonance by holding fast to their homophobic prejudices, Kennicott cited Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York , who had remarked on the similarities between the Empire State’s recent re-definition of marriage and the kind of human engineering attempted by totalitarian states; NRO’s Kathryn Jean Lopez and I came into Mr. Kennicott’s line of fire for displaying similarly “virulent homophobic rhetoric” in articles defending Archbishop Dolan’s suggestion that, in the marriage debate, the totalitarian temptation was very much in play. Philip Kennicott’s line of attack nicely demonstrates the truth of Oscar Wilde’s...