NEW YORK (NY)
New York Post
September 4, 2018
By Tamar Lapin
Timothy Cardinal Dolan on Tuesday addressed the sexual-abuse and coverup scandals rocking the Catholic Church — saying even he’s at a loss.
“When people say to me you know, we’re angry, we’re confused, bewildered, frustrated, I think they might expect me to be on the defensive, and I’ll say, ‘Nice to meet you. So am I.’ We’re all in this together,” the New York archbishop told Father Dave Dwyer on “The Catholic Show” on Sirius XM.
“There’s almost a solidarity in the sorrow,” he added.
The controversies that have arisen this summer — including the ouster of former Washington Archbishop Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, the bombshell Pennsylvania grand-jury report and an archbishop’s skewering letter calling for Pope Francis to resign — are not leaving anyone unscathed, Dolan said.
“No sin is isolated to the single act. It affects, it keeps affecting people, there’s not a person in the church that’s not been affected by this,” he said. The scandals are of an “oil spill nature,” he added — touching everyone from the Catholic people “walking into the factory or the classroom or the office” and feeling embarrassed to the priest who “can’t shake the feeling” that his parishioners are wondering whether he’s a predator.
Even Dolan’s own mother of almost 90 called him to say she’d skipped lunch at her nursing home in shame.
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