UNITED STATES
Huffington Post
Michele Somerville
Timothy Dolan has been curiously silent since the highly damning news that he may have paid pedophile priests in his (former) Milwaukee Archdiocese as much as $20,000 to go away broke on May 31. It’s likely that Dolan, his advisors and his apologists are waiting for the reports to die down — to go away, perhaps in the manner of those Milwaukee priests who abused children.
When the Cardinal finishes being silent, he’ll have some explaining to do.
He spoke to the New York Post on June 4 but didn’t say much. He didn’t deny making the payments, but he described the Times’ claim that he had as “groundless”, and took a shot at New York City’s paper of record. Isn’t his admission grounds enough for a reporter to go with the story?
Waiting out the scandal may prove difficult for Timothy Dolan with so many time-sensitive projects at hand: the USCCB’s (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops) unofficial campaign for Romney, the lead-up to to “Fortnight for Freedom” — a “two-week period of prayer, education and action in support of religious freedom, from June 21-July 4,” and the ongoing war against “ObamaCare.”
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