My recent visit to the Holy Land revealed fear and depression but also the grit and resilience of a people to whom the prophets preached and for whom Jesus wept.
Timothy Michael Dolan
Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan is the archbishop of New York.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Cardinal Dolan: In Defense of Culture Warriors
Sometimes ‘culture warriors’ are necessary. The Catholic Church in the United States has had occasion in our history to be more Ezekiel-like in its approach to culture.
Posted inFaith, Last Take
Cardinal Dolan: The Catholic Church has too many seminaries.
To provide quality formation—human, academic, spiritual and pastoral—to our future priests is a sacred duty. We would be able to do this better if we had fewer seminaries, all of them excellent ones.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
The wit and wisdom of John Tracy Ellis
Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan reviews Msgr. Thomas Shelley’s ‘John Tracy Ellis: An American Catholic Reformer,’ calling it “a well-documented yet very readable biography of the ‘dean’ of American Catholic history.”
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Cardinal Dolan: Catholics have a duty to care for immigrants. And the government can’t punish us for that.
The Catholic Church is not a faction of the Republican Party—and Democrats are not the only ones who sometimes view the defense of religious freedom as a pothole instead of a stop sign.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Catholic hospitals welcome transgender patients—and stand firm in their religious convictions
Cardinal Cupich and Cardinal Dolan on Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act: Does objecting to performing gender transition procedures—but welcoming patients who identify as transgender—constitute discrimination? Of course not.
Posted inFaith, News
Read: Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s prayer at the Republican National Convention
Cardinal Dolan led off the opening evening of the RNC.
Posted inFrom Our Archives
Learning Curve: How one archdiocese adapted its Catholic schools for the 21st century
Like almost every other diocese in the United States, the Archdiocese of New York is undergoing a serious and daring refashioning of our beloved Catholic elementary schools. Since 1727, when the Ursuline Sisters of New Orleans opened the first Catholic grade school in what would become the United St
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The Catholic Schools We Need
Moving from a hospice mentality to renewed hope
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A Shared Path: Jews and Catholics face the present, looking to the future
Pressing problems Jews and Catholics must face together