tbutkovich

Woe to the New York Governor, you have angered God and you will surely pay the price for signing into law the bill for long term abortions. And to those elected Democrat Party members of New York State who cheered your decision, you should be ashamed. And woe to you Cardinal Dolan for your disgusting behavior when called upon by Fox News to comment on Cuomo’s Decision. You started off with a joke and finished with a blast of hot air! Our elected leaders and the leadership of the church have failed us. Another swamp that needs to be drained! Don’t expect Cardinal Dolan to harshly criticize Cuomo because the are are Best Friends Forever.

tbutkovich

I hope the “polar vortex” sits over New York City for a full month!

Carol Kelly

And Virginia. Trying to pass the same legislation.

Wolf counselor Loc: Heart of Texas

So called Christians give these shyster preachers billions of dollars annually.

It's absolutely ridiculous.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/08/22/you-give-religions-more-than-82-5-billion-a-year/?utm_term=.0ba010f0474a

Trooper745 Loc: Carolina

Worldwide, we have 125,000 abortions per day, and still call ourselves "civilized".

BigMike Loc: yerington nv

Seth

This is precisely why I refer to career politicians as whores.

Every Italian or Irish Catholic I've ever known has taken his/her religion seriously and would not countenance abortion at ANY stage.

Cuomo is clearly pandering to the far left voters in the Democratic Party, seeing such episodes as the election of the likes of Alexandria Ocasio Cortez as some kind of writing on the wall, and allowing his career politician's political survival instincts to supersede his Catholic sense of morality because he wants those votes.

That is the definition of a whore. His political career is more important to him than doing the right thing, more important even than human decency.

Where Cardinal Dolan is concerned, he, too, is a politician within the Church -- there is as much politics in the Vatican as there is outside it, priests at various levels jockeying for positions of ever- increasing status.

This has to be placing Dolan between a rock and a hard place, because NOT, at the very least, censuring Andrew Cuomo if not outright excommunicating him will not sit at all well with his more conservative superiors in Rome. Imagine how, for example, the Jesuits will react.

So now we're going to see how this plays out. Is Dolan going to allow a friendship with a whore to cloud his own future prospects with the "home office," or is he going to do what amounts to his duty as a high ranking Catholic priest?

I suppose we'll find out soon enough, and if he doesn't do right by the Church, we'll then see how the Vatican responds which will, in turn, tell us a lot about the current state of affairs in Rome.

tbutkovich

You are right on target! More and more people are coming out and defining those fake men of the cloth, fake journalists, wicked politicians for who they are. The good people of this great nation have to expose the wicked ones who subvert morality!

Seth

Agreed.

tbutkovich

I used to hold my religious leaders as sacred, not to be questioned, not to be challenged, to be revered, to do otherwise would be blasphemy. The sinful behavior or refusal to uphold Catholic Doctrine because is not popular or offends a celebrity, I find apalling. Too many hard hearted players are masquerading as authentic when they are simply counterfeits. Although I find the actions or inactions of church leaders very disturbing it hasn’t affected my faith in God And my love for Jesus Christ.

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

Intriguing premise....

Louie27 Loc: Peoria, AZ

What shyster preachers are you talking about. The only shyster preachers are Those like Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson.

crazylibertarian Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island

Dolan is a disgrace to the faith.

Betta

They're all shysters. Some of the biggest devil's walking this earth can be found behind the pulpit with their noses in the air looking down at the people. Yep, I've actually seen this. The pastor sat in a high backed chair looking down his nose. I'm sitting in the pew looking at this and said to myself "Something ain't right up there."

Lo and behold I was right. Here, dude was gay and had HIV. Died of dull blown AIDS. Had been kicked out of a large church because he was chasing the men around. He even approached a friend of my daughter that she went to school with. He told us all about it.

Seth

You forgot Reverend Wright.