NEW YORK (NY)
New York Daily News
January 28, 2019
By Kenneth Lovett
The holy war between Gov. Cuomo and state Catholic leaders like Timothy Cardinal Dolan continued Monday over the issue of abortion and a bill to help victims of child sexual abuse.
Cuomo, surrounded by child sex abuse survivors, said he’s not surprised that there have been calls among some Catholic leaders in the state and nationally for him to be excommunicated from the Church.
He recalled that his father, the late former three-term Gov. Mario Cuomo, faced similar calls over his position on abortion.
“This is not a new issue for a governor named Cuomo,” he said. “It’s sort of a second chapter.”
He called the tensions with the church “an ongoing situation.”
But Cuomo also dug in, defending his positions on abortion and calling out the church for leading the opposition when it came the Child Victims Act. Days after signing into and celebrating and expanding the state’s abortion laws, Cuomo reiterated he agrees with Pope Francis, who has called for a crackdown on pedophile priests.
“To the Catholic Church, I am sorry about the situation,” Cuomo said. “I’m not sorry about my position. I’m sorry they have taken the position they’ve taken.”
Cuomo, a Roman Catholic and former altar boy,accused the church bureaucracy in New York of decades of cover-ups when it came to sexual abuse issues.
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