QUOTATION: The Church's Role

The Church does not change God’s revelation, but attempts to change us so we can live it.

--Cardinal Timothy Dolan, blog, October 21, 2014

QUOTATION: Religion in the Public Square

At the heart of the noble American project is a recognition that religion is essential for a virtuous democracy and the promotion of the common good.

--Cardinal Timothy Dolan

QUOTATION: Faith

Convenience, ease, no demands, no sacrifice, blending in, drifting along, just-like-everybody-else, no “cost of discipleship”—that’s a poisonous recipe for faith.

Hardship, sacrifice, tough choices, harassment, ridicule, standing for Gospel values, loyalty to our faith to the point of persecution or even blood—that’s the recipe for a deep, sincere, dynamic faith.

--Cardinal Timothy Dolan

QUOTATION: Utiliarianism

In the utilitarian view that dominates our age, the principle that human life is an end in itself, not a means to an end, is always subject to a calculation that would justify harm to another, if we deem it to produce enough of a benefit to ourselves. Every human life is thus vulnerable to being on the losing side of the utilitarian’s cost/benefit analysis.

--Cardinal Timothy Dolan

QUOTATION: Limp Spirituality

Maybe the greatest threat to the Church is not heresy, not dissent, not secularism, not even moral relativism, but this sanitized, feel-good, boutique, therapeutic spirituality that makes no demands, calls for no sacrifice, asks for no conversion, entails no battle against sin, but only soothes and affirms.

--Archbishop Timothy Dolan