UNITED STATES
Thy Child’s Face
Timothy M. Dolan — archbishop of New York, newly appointed to the College of Cardinals, and Prince of the Church — represents the next generation of accomplices protecting sexual predators employed by the Roman Catholic Church in the United States.
In the autumn of 2008, Dolan travelled from Milwaukee, Wisc., where he was the sitting archbishop, to St. Louis, Mo. He came home to visit an uncle hospitalized with a serious illness.
There he saw a priest who criticized him in a face-to face meeting about his handling of the clergy child molestation scandal in St. Louis and Milwaukee.
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In particular, this priest was concerned about Dolan’s unwillingness to break with those who protect predator priests. Dolan responded with a derisive stare for this bold rebuke, offended that a lowly priest would accost
someone of his stature.
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