Comments on: Cardinal Dolan to Offer Closing Prayer at Democratic Convention

By: scandalized

scandalized — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 22:09:32 +0000

Glad to see I am not the only person totally scandalized that Cardinal Dolan will be offering a blessing for the platform of infanticide and sodomy.

Also, it might be more effective if we identify sodomy by it’s name: sodomy. “Gay ‘Rights’” and “Gay ‘Marriage’” is the language used by people who don’t want to admit what it is and why it is bad: sodomy.

“Abortion” is the silver bullet against “pro-choice”; likewise, “sodomy” is likely the silver bullet against sodomizers. Except that is probably hate speech. To actually identify an act by the actual term.

Cardinal Dolan is doing no good service to the Church, by blessing the democrats’ convention and platform.

By: TXW

TXW — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 20:46:50 +0000

Democrats want the Catholic vote. All they need is a picture of the Cardinal at their ritual. If he rained down fire and brimstone and screamed at them, the media would still make it look like a Catholic could vote for the death party.
@stanchaz: “As the Cardinal addresses and blesses the Republicans and their billionaire buddies,”
Democrats are billionaires, too, they just pretend they are just like the working guy. Read “Who Really Cares” to see who contributes more to the poor. It’s the conservatives. Leftist billionaires give out condoms and free abortions to dark skinned peoples.
“as he smiles upon those who would destroy Social Security and voucher Medicare to death”
–Social Security will go bankrupt as there are less children to pay into it, i.e., Greece had riots over its insolvent pensions. No republican has advocated killing Medicare to my knowledge, but it is the same as SS–you need young people to pay into this, instead of aborting them.
“as he joins with those who readily admit they they “don’t care about the very poor”……
—Source? the free market has brought more people out of poverty than any other economic system. While single women are abandoned by men, becoming very poor, they continue to vote democrat, a party that protects the service (abortion) that allows men to jump from bed to bed, leaving women in poverty.

“it would be good, it would be very good …for the dear Cardinal
to remember -and take to heart- the words of his boss,
who once said “What you do for the least of these you do for me”.
–I agree.
And I laughed at David Nickols joke.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 20:01:11 +0000

Deborah – I thought the Cardinal’s first duty was to love God and love his neighbor. After that, probably spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ; see above. Even those of us that love the church have to acknowledge that it’s filled with power struggles and contradictions. The political parties in this country have much to answer for in terms of ethics and morality. Prayer is a good exercise for both parties.

By: Deborah

Deborah — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:40:24 +0000

EB I think you do not understand that the Cardinal’s 1st duty is to defend the Catholic Church. He should do nothing that could be interpreted as supporting a political party that is waging war against Catholics and all Christians. (HHS mandates, No Conscience Clause, Homosexual marriage etc.) Giving a prayerful Amen to the Democratic Convention is supporting their amoral platform. Obama is fixed on forcing his authority on America. You can bet I’m praying, God help us & give us mercy because our Catholic leaders have dissolved into pablum.

By: EB

EB — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:18:51 +0000

Since when did the Catholic become an exclusive, untouchable sacred club? Both parties are guilty of undermining morality, The Church and the sacredness of religion. Both.
I am dumbfounded to understand how anyone can still be so deluded to think that one party or the other is going to strengthen morality or the Faith, in their policies, in their approach to politics. So what if +Dolan offers a prayer at a party convention, to either side? So what? Let him pray Our Prayers wherever he goes, to show the presence of the faith in the lives of the faithful. Choosing where to pray, and snubbing the Democrats or the Republicans is playing into the political sides; and by golly the flack he will get for doing that. Some people need to re-read their comments. Cardinal Dolan is not out to scandalize. He is not an idiot in American History or American politics. He is not the anti-Christ offering prayer of death to the enemy. He is doing exactly what a servant of God should be doing- displaying the Faith and praying. And he should seek ANY opportunity to do exactly that.

By: Deborah

Deborah — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:31:36 +0000

The Democratic party will just use the Cardinal to trick the Ignorant Christian. The news media will use pictures & lie about the “submission of the Catholic Church.” The democrats have no intention of taking a moral stand on anything. Don’t you understand their political platform?
I will never trust the Democrats and I am finding it hard to trust Cardinal Dolan. He is getting bad advice somewhere. You cannot “serve two masters” The “choice” is clear.

By: Botolph

Botolph — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 03:05:50 +0000

I can just imagine the comments that arose when the Lord Jesus told the centurion he would go to his house to heal his slave, when He entered the house of Levi (Matthew) the tax collector and was surrounded by tax collectors and prostitutes…

It is important to note that Pope Benedict has called upon the Church in America to speak up for respect for human life from the moment of conception until natural death, for marriage between man and woman for life (and the family), for religious freedom, and to assist in bringing the tone of communication in our country (especially our ideological and political conversations) to a civil level.

Cardinal Dolan is doing this. We need to do the same.

By: stanchaz

stanchaz — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:58:40 +0000

May I humbly remind the good Cardinal Dolan,
as he preens and pontificates under the spotlights
of the political conventions:
there is really room for only ONE superstar in his religion.
As the Cardinal addresses and blesses the Republicans and their billionaire buddies,
as he smiles upon those who would destroy Social Security and voucher Medicare to death,
as he joins with those who readily admit they they “don’t care about the very poor”……
it would be good, it would be very good …for the dear Cardinal
to remember -and take to heart- the words of his boss,
who once said “What you do for the least of these you do for me”.
Unless perhaps, just perhaps, the Cardinal is working for someone else these days?
As our Founding Fathers realized: Politics, secular power, and Religion do not mix.
They bring out the worst in each other.
And ultimately…..they destroy each other.

By: Donna

Donna — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:24:14 +0000

Harry has it exactly right. Unless Card. Dolan will tell the Democratic Convention that their adamant support of abortion is an abomination before God and man, he should not go. Unless Card. Dolan will tell President Obama that his lies, oppression, and immorality cry to God for vengeance, then he should disinvite him from the Al Smith Dinner. Anything else is dishonest and will only aid and abet the enemy. When will Card. Dolan start acting as if he understands the seriousness of what we are facing?

By: Charles

Charles — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 22:10:54 +0000

Matthew– How naive of you to think that having Dolan pray at the Democratic convention will change anyone’s position.

If the DNC invited the heads of Americans for Tax Reform or Freedom Works to the podium, everyone would see that as a charade, which is what Dolan’s invitation is and unfortunately the Cardinal falls for it.

The principal reason Dolan should not accept is that by going to the DNC convention, he simply gives cover to the Democrat Catholics to again justify ignoring the abortion leanings of the party.

You might want to spend some time with Harry, as he seems to have a good understanding of the situation.