Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s Lavish Mansion

Berger's Beat
January 8, 2015

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Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal is urging NYC Cardinal (and St. Louis native) Timothy Dolan to sell his “splendid 15,000-foot mansion on Madison

Avenue” and give the proceeds to parochial schools. “This would more closely (align) the church of New York with the modest style of Pope Francis.”

A recent CNN report called “The lavish homes of American archbishops” revealed that ten of the country’s top Catholic officials defy the pontiff’s example and live in homes worth more than $1 million. The value of Dolan’s crib is estimated to be at least $30 million.

(Are clergy abuse pay-offs behind Dolan’s money troubles? It’s hard to know, Noonan writes, because “the last time the New York Archdiocese released numbers on those costs were 11 years ago.”