{"id":456832,"date":"2025-12-19T02:34:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T02:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/456832\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T02:34:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T02:34:17","slug":"thank-you-cardinal-dolan-for-your-stalwart-service-to-all-new-yorkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/456832\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you, Cardinal Dolan, for your stalwart service to all New Yorkers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Timothy Cardinal Dolan won New Yorkers\u2019 hearts from the start, with his inaugural Mass as archbishop invoking the heroes of 9\/11 <\/a>as he vowed to fight for \u201cthe dignity of every human person, the sanctity of human life, from the tiny baby in the womb.\u201d<\/p>\n

He kept up that fight all these 16 years, however much nominally Catholic politicians like Govs. Andrew Cuomo and Kathy Hochul disappointed him. (Hochul, most recently, by embracing \u201cvoluntary\u201d death-by-doctor<\/a> \u2014 a blatant offense to the sanctity of human life.)<\/p>\n

Dolan was a joyous leader of the church, sticking firmly to orthodoxy even as he welcomed gays.<\/p>\n

He was also strong on interfaith relations: In 2015, the American Jewish Committee honored him with the Isaiah Award for Exemplary Interreligious Leadership, citing \u201chis steadfast contribution and ongoing commitment to the relationship between our respective faiths.\u201d<\/p>\n

Along the way, he charmed the city with his deep humility, genial wit, open-hearted preaching and jovial faith.<\/p>\n

In particular, he was a beacon to Gotham\u2019s Catholics amid the pandemic and the lockdowns, when churches were shuttered: His direct and heartfelt homilies buoyed the entire archdiocese amid challenges no American ever imagined the church would face in a free country.<\/p>\n

He won over his fellow leaders of the church as well \u2014 from winning an unprecedented upset<\/a> to become president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops\u00a0in 2011 to playing a key role<\/a> in the ascension of Pope Leo XIV as the first American-born pontiff just last year.<\/p>\n

And the pope seems to have returned the favor by sending in a fellow Chicago boy to take over from Dolan: Illinois Bishop Ronald Hicks plainly hit it off<\/a> with the cardinal, who of course himself originally hails from the Midwest (and has the penchant for a good brew to show it).<\/p>\n

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Dolan led the archdiocese through many ordeals, not least in facing the abuse scandals \u2014 and in making the sacrifices (including the closure of much-beloved churches and Catholic schools) to settle the endless litigation that resulted.<\/p>\n

If we had to guess, we suspect he\u2019s most cheered to see a tide of young people embracing active Catholic faith<\/a>, a renaissance that began under Pope John Paul II and shows every sign of flowering further<\/a> under Leo.<\/p>\n

We must confess one gripe with the pontiff: By letting Dolan retire, he\u2019s costing us the cardinal\u2019s services as an occasional Post columnist, most recently writing to rally decency<\/a> and devotion in the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination. <\/p>\n

We look forward to seeing how good soon-to-be-Archbishop Hicks is with a pen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Timothy Cardinal Dolan won New Yorkers\u2019 hearts from the start, with his inaugural Mass as archbishop invoking the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":456833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,209111,20496,4691,5371,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,1269,91041,3417,92507,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-456832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-archdiocese-of-new-york","10":"tag-catholic-church","11":"tag-editorial","12":"tag-kathy-hochul","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-opinion","20":"tag-pope-john-paul-ii","21":"tag-pope-leo-xiv","22":"tag-timothy-dolan","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-united-states-of-america","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115743900762555534","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}