The Hypocrisy of Cardinal Dolan of NY and Defeating the Child Victims Act

 

Received from Robert Hoatson

 

“Cardinal Dolan: The Pot Calling the Kettle Black”

 

As I sat and watched the interviews of Cardinal Dolan on Tuesday regarding the Vatican’s report on former Cardinal Archbishop Theodore McCarrick, I couldn’t help but notice Dolan’s abject hypocrisy. The report is replete with episodes of incompetent, negligent, and deceptive behavior on the part of members of the Church hierarchy, mainly Popes, Cardinals, Archbishops, and Bishops. 

 

Did Cardinal Dolan forget that when he referred to Theodore McCarrick as charming, talented, charismatic, friendly, deceptive, and a liar, he was referring to himself and most, if not all, members of the Church hierarchy?

 

Cardinal Dolan, you have never revealed how much money the New York Catholic Conference spent for at least a decade attempting to defeat the Child Victims’ Act, giving childhood victims of sexual abuse their day in court. All those years, you told the faithful of the Archdiocese of New York that the legislation would seriously hamper the charitable efforts of the Archdiocese. That hasn’t happened and you knew it then. Don’t tell us how much money McCarrick misspent unless, Cardinal Dolan, you give us the facts surrounding your efforts to defeat that legislation and apologize to all victim/survivors.

 

Cardinal Dolan, please tell us why you never removed Msgr. John Paddack for years after reports of sexual abuse of children reached your desk. Paddack remained Pastor of Notre Dame Parish in Manhattan for years after you knew. Don’t criticize Theodore McCarrick without looking in your own mirror. 

 

And, Cardinal Dolan, Fr. Dennis Timone was removed only recently despite an allegation being reported in 2002. You allowed him to go from coast to coast (New York to San Diego) every year where children and young people were at risk of being abused. Don’t criticize Theodore McCarrick unless you are willing to admit your negligence.

 

Finally, and most dramatically, Cardinal Dolan, you have continued to allow Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio to remain as Bishop of Brooklyn despite the fact that two men have come forward to report that Fr. Nicholas DiMarzio sexually abused them as children in two parishes in Jersey City, New Jersey. Aren’t you as deceptive as Theodore McCarrick and Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict?

 

Aren’t all you bishops the same? Isn’t it time for the pots to stop calling the kettles black and admit that the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church is corrupt to the core? 

 

Robert M. Hoatson, Ph.D.,

Co-founder and President

Road to Recovery, Inc.

 

Reprinted from: Bishop Accountability News November 16 2020  Vol.1, No. 219`