Archbishop Timothy Dolan vs. Maureen Dowd
New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan addresses the 64th annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in New York, Thursday, Oct., 15, 2009. (AP Photo/Stuart Ramson)
St. Louis native, Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York started his own blog recently. And he’s wasted no time attracting readers.
On Saturday, he teed off on the New York Times while equating the great American pastime of baseball with “another national pastime” - anti-Catholicism.
“It is not hyperbole to call prejudice against the Catholic Church a national pastime,” Dolan wrote.
Dolan was miffed about several recent stories in the Times. Mostly, he believes, the journalism is biased against Catholics, especially on the sensitive issue of clergy sexual abuse in the Catholic church, a problem he blamed on “a tiny minority of priests.”
Commenting on a Times story about a priest who fathered a child (and that we blogged about here at Civil Religion), Dolan wondered what all the fuss was about,…
