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Cardinal Dolan returns to St. Patrick's from Rome. Andrew Savulich/New York Daily News
Even for a cardinal, there’s no place like home.
A beaming Cardinal Dolan returned to New York Tuesday after his whirlwind trip to Rome.
“It’s good to be home,” crowed Dolan outside Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, where a half dozen bagpipers and a group of spectators were waiting to greet him.
“I know I have to do a lot of travelling, but there’s nothing like just getting back home. And now to have my mom with me, that really makes it home.”
Donna McCarthy, a teacher from Queens, said she was thrilled for the chance to lay eyes on the Catholic Church’s new prince.
“It’s wonderful,” gushed McCarthy. “He’s such a people’s person.”
Dolan arrived at Kennedy Airport about 2:20 p.m., capping his nine-day trip to Rome where he was elevated to cardinal by Pope Benedict XVI.
He spent much of the flight extolling the virtues of Italian cooking — and his adopted city, said Msgr. Hilary Franco, of St. Augustine School in upstate Ossining.
“He loves everything Irish, Italian, whatever… but he especially loves Italian cuisine,” Franco said. “We talked about everything that has to do with New York. Like all of us, he’s very excited to be back.”
Dolan won’t get time to sleep off his jet lag.
He’ll be up bright and early Wednesday, handing out bread to the homeless at the Church of Saint Francis of Assisi on W. 31st St. at 7 a.m.
On Saturday, he’ll offer a Mass of Thanksgiving at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral.
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Not according to the Supreme Court Ann. The ruling came down that the church has the right to set rules even for its employees. The church has a very healthy theology on social justice, its from the encyclial “Rerum Novarum” from Pope Leo XIII. However, when it comes to the churches teachings on moral issues such as contraception and abortion, the church has every right to eliminate anything that would compromise these practices. The church cannot impose anything on American Society. It can however teach American Society about God’s Law. The church can however can warn catholics that if they mess with the Natural Law and Church teaching, they are at war with God Himself. Think about it!
Correction: church as employer
We are happy for him, however the honeymoon will be short lives as the reality of Obama, the Cardinal, in the white house continues to impose his theology of what the Catholic church should be doing. The next six months are going to be very nasty. This is becomung total war between religious Freedom vs the Obama Administration. Obama and the secular religion are coming in for the kill. Much prayer is needed for both Cardinal Dolan as he is the spokesman for the church in America, and the church itself.
More like the church imposing its theology on Americn civil society. The church wants to have its cake and eat it too: if the church wants to be an employer, it needs to follow labor law. Rules don’t apply to the church as worshipping community, but to the church as empooyer.