{"id":127,"date":"2009-09-25T07:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T07:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2009\/09\/quote-of-the-day-maybe-of-the-week.html"},"modified":"2009-09-25T07:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T07:26:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-maybe-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2009\/09\/quote-of-the-day-maybe-of-the-week.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the day.  Maybe of the week."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_0DySLTT4PWo\/SrypeqSihqI\/AAAAAAAAGQA\/77tZfzLlUio\/s1600-h\/dolan090928_1_250.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 250px;height: 375px\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_0DySLTT4PWo\/SrypeqSihqI\/AAAAAAAAGQA\/77tZfzLlUio\/s400\/dolan090928_1_250.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;You know, the church is the one who dreams, the church is the one who constantly has the vision, the church is the one that\u2019s constantly saying \u2018Yes!\u2019 to everything that life and love and sexuality and marriage and belief and freedom and human dignity\u2014everything that that stands for, the church is giving one big resounding \u2018Yes!\u2019 The church founded the universities, the church was the patron of the arts, the scientists were all committed Catholics. And that\u2019s what we have to recapture: the kind of exhilarating, freeing aspect. I mean, it wasn\u2019t Ronald Reagan who brought down the Berlin Wall. It was Karol Wojty?a. I didn\u2019t make that up: Mikhail Gorbachev said that&#8230;I guess one of the things that frustrates me pastorally is that there\u2019s this caricature of the church\u2014of being this oppressive, patriarchal, medieval, out-of-touch naysayer\u2014where the opposite is true.\u201d<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right\">&#8212; Archbishop Timothy Dolan, in <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/news\/features\/59256\/\">this profile<\/a> in New York Magazine.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/blogs\/theanchoress\/2009\/09\/24\/getting-to-know-timothy-dolan\/\">H\/T<\/a> to The A. <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right\"><span style=\"font-size:78%\"><b>PHOTO:<\/b><i>  by Mary Ellen Mark<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You know, the church is the one who dreams, the church is the one who constantly has the vision, the church is the one that\u2019s constantly saying \u2018Yes!\u2019 to everything that life and love and sexuality and marriage and belief and freedom and human dignity\u2014everything that that stands for, the church is giving one big&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":365,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote-of-the-day"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Quote of the day. 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