“While there may be an openness to respond to some of our concerns, we reserve judgment on the details until we have them,” said Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan.
“Sexual love is so sacred, so noble, so powerful, so awesome, that it actually reflects God’s passionate, personal love for us,” Dolan told his congregation last Sunday.
“As a kid, I just wanted to be a parish priest,” Dolan said at a news conference this morning. “And to think that now the pope has named me a cardinal— that’s awesome.”
Religious freedom “is now increasingly and in unprecedented ways under assault in America," said Archbishop Timothy Dolan in a letter announcing the formation of the committee.
Obama's assault on DOMA will precipitate a "national conflict between Church and State of enormous proportions and to the detriment of both institutions,” said Archbishop Dolan in a hard-hitting letter to the president.
"Like St. Thomas More, we’re willing to take the heat and even lose our head from following a conscience properly formed by God’s revelation," said the archbishop.
In 2006, Maguire sent all 270 U.S. Catholic Bishops two pamphlets claiming that abortion, same-sex "marriage" and contraception are acceptable under Catholicism.