{"id":4082,"date":"2010-02-22T20:48:46","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T20:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2010\/02\/this-is-the-most-fun-ive-had-since-i-was-a-monsignor.html"},"modified":"2010-02-22T20:48:46","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T20:48:46","slug":"this-is-the-most-fun-ive-had-since-i-was-a-monsignor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/02\/this-is-the-most-fun-ive-had-since-i-was-a-monsignor.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;This is the most fun I&#8217;ve had since I was a monsignor!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/tmd410.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tmd410.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/212\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/tmd410-thumb-400x269-11716.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px;text-align: center\" height=\"269\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThose immortal words were uttered earlier this evening by one Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, and the man who can claim to occupy arguably the second biggest pulpit in the world (the first, of course, being Benedict&#8217;s, wherever he might be at any given moment).<\/p>\n<p>Dolan held forth at a Theology on Tap in Manhattan, and <a href=\"http:\/\/whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/year-later-tim-on-tap.html\">Rocco has a rough transcript.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/year-later-tim-on-tap.html\">   <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those immortal words were uttered earlier this evening by one Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, and the man who can claim to occupy arguably the second biggest pulpit in the world (the first, of course, being Benedict&#8217;s, wherever he might be at any given moment). 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