Cardinal Dolan Archives

Summit aims to build ‘global movement’ for religious freedom

Jul 21, 2021

Looking back on the 2021 International Religious Freedom Summit, co-chair Sam Brownback believes it accomplished the goal of building relationships between global religious leaders, and laying the foundation for what he hopes will be a “global movement.”

By John Lavenburg

With new ferry named for her, Dorothy Day still moving workers

Mar 29, 2021

Already a servant of God, Dorothy Day has long been revered by Catholics for her social activism. Now, with the announcement that a new Staten Island ferry will bear her name, thousands of ferry patrons will also recognize her name on a daily basis.

By John Lavenburg

Bishops support measure to protect faith-based foster agencies

Mar 16, 2021

Three U.S. Bishops Conference chairmen affirmed Monday their support for First Amendment protections for faith-based foster care and adoption providers with legislation introduced that aims to ensure those institutions continue to receive funding.

By John Lavenburg

Cardinal Dolan accuses Trump of ‘stoking the flames’ in Capitol violence

Jan 11, 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.

By John Lavenburg

New York’s religious leaders finding God at virus’s American epicenter

Apr 10, 2020

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.

By Nick Mayrand

In a changing city, look back at the Irish archbishops who built the Church in New York

Mar 17, 2017

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.

By Kathryn Jean Lopez

Cardinal Dolan op-ed urges passage of nationwide school choice bill

Mar 10, 2017

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.

By Catholic News Service

Cardinal Dolan: a mother’s womb is the primal sanctuary

Jan 27, 2017

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.”

By Matt Hadro