Pope's point man for charity urges world not to forget homeless in vaccination push
- Jan 21, 2021
In his first comments since President Donald Trump supporters stormed the Capitol Building in protest of the 2020 election this past Wednesday, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, condemned the president for instigating the behavior.
With Passover and Easter just around the corner, leaders from New York City’s Catholic and Jewish communities expressed their mutual conviction that God is present in their people’s suffering and warned about complacency in Catholic-Jewish relations.
Ireland has played an important role in the life of the Catholic Church in America, and nowhere is this more apparent than in New York City, where every archbishop has been of Irish heritage. A new book – ‘Sons of St. Patrick: A History of the Archbishops of New York from Dagger John to Timmytown’ – looks at this history.
Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York urged President Donald Trump to “push Congress to make scholarship tax credits available to working-class families.” The cardinal called for rapid action in Congress so that families can have a choice on where to send their children to school.
During a pro-life Mass before the March for Life, Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York reminded the faithful of the need to “reclaim the belief that the mother’s womb is the primal sanctuary, where a helpless, innocent, fragile, tiny baby is safe, secure, nurtured and protected.”