Romney invites NY Catholic Cardinal Dolan to offer benediction after acceptance speech

[rug]

By Associated Press, Published: August 22

NEW YORK — Roman Catholic Cardinal Timothy Dolan will give the benediction at the Republican National Convention on the night Mitt Romney accepts the presidential nomination. The cardinal’s spokesman said the appearance was not an endorsement.

Dolan is the New York archbishop and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Romney announced Dolan’s appearance in an interview with Raymond Arroyo’s “The World Over Live” on EWTN Catholic network.

The archdiocese is one of more than 40 Catholic groups suing President Barack Obama over his mandate that employers provide health insurance that includes free birth control as a preventive service. The rule exempts houses of worship but includes faith-affiliated employers such as hospitals, charities and colleges.

Obama promised to change the requirement so that insurance companies and not faith-affiliated employers would pay for the coverage. But details have not been worked out and many religious leaders have said the compromise appears to be unworkable.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/romney-invites-ny-catholic-cardinal-dolan-to-offer-benediction-after-acceptance-speech/2012/08/22/e79d787e-ec9f-11e1-866f-60a00f604425_story.html

And the asshole accepted. "Not an endorsement", my ass.

[Ganja Ninja]

1. What?! No readings from the book of Mormon?!!!

Come on Mitt now's your chance to enlighten Americans to your own personal brand of Christianity. I was so looking forward to that.

[Progressive dog]

2. Sprinkled through his speech

will be the book of Mormon. You'll have to listen closely.

[madrchsod]

3. a catholic archbishop endorsing a mormon bishop?

wow ..this guy will do and say anything they can to get that black guy out of the whitehouse.

i guess being a christian who does go to church when can does`t sit well with timmy.

[CBHagman]

4. And of course New York already had a variation on the contraception coverage rule anyway.

That's been covered extensively in the press. Many Catholic organizations were self-insuring due to the regulation already, so the lawsuits are just part of the continuing drama queendom of the good cardinal.

[winston65]

5. no mormons, please, we're fanatics

well, you didn't think he was going to ask a mormon, did you?

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

6. If this happens....

A revenue agent from the IRS should be waiting in the wings with a bill for the taxes owed by the Catholic Church.

[hedgehog]

7. It'd be interesting to know how many Catholics think of Dolan

as a mere glad-hander who sucks up to the anti-Vatican II types in the Curia!

This won't help Romney, but it may hurt Dolan!

[progressivebydesign]

8. these are the same people that refused John Kerry communion during the election..

..because he supported a woman's right to choose. Noooo not political at alllll.. riiiight.

[meow2u3]

9. The NYC Archdiocese ought to have it tax-exempt status revoked

for blatantly getting involved in partisan politics.

So should the diocese Bishop Morlino runs for comparing Obama to Hitler and Stalin.

AFAIC, they're not really Catholics; they're false prophets who should be outed as such.

[Retrograde]

10. Dolan is running for pope

IMHO: this is a way to get him a lot of notice, and if Romney gets elected, a toehold on the national stage - and a way to show the rest of the cardinals around the world how influential he can make the Church in the US. Dolan spends a good deal of time and money lobbying in Albany on his pet issues, among which is not letting the statue of limitations on child sexual abuse get extended. While he was bishop of Milwaukee he paid off abusers to make them go away.

He looks jovial and well-meaning, but he's got an agenda.

[WI_DEM]

11. We should have those nuns who are blasting Romney/Ryan at our convention.

Nuns are much more popular than Cardinals--they actually work with the poor, sick and elderly while the Cardinals hobnob with the rich.

[Dawson Leery]

13. +1

[Dawson Leery]

12. It is time tax Mr. Dolan.

[wordpix]

14. Rmoney keeps putting cart before horse, his hubris knows no bounds - where are the tax returns?

[ailsagirl]

15. YES, WHERE ARE THE TAX RETURNS???