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POSTED BY JACKIE SOUTHEE ON MAY 06, 2013
New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan is rushing to judgment and defending a priest being investigated for potential financial misdeeds.
In New York Magazine, Dolan says this about the just-resigned president of St. John’s University, Fr.Donald Harrington: “I am delighted to learn that in his retirement Father Harrington will be available to the Church to continue to champion Catholic education,” Dolan said in a statement. “I expect to call on him.”
This kind of premature rallying around a potential criminal that discourages people who see suspect and suffer wrongdoing in the church from speaking up.
Dolan should be using his massive resources to encourage, not discourage, those with information or suspicions about Fr. Harrington to step forward.
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