{"id":5244,"date":"2010-11-17T17:04:49","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T17:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2010\/11\/more-on-dolan.html"},"modified":"2010-11-17T17:04:49","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T17:04:49","slug":"more-on-dolan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/11\/more-on-dolan.html","title":{"rendered":"More on Dolan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/capt.43c677ec20b14846b3835877ffa9b7c7-43c677ec20b14846b3835877ffa9b7c7-0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"capt.43c677ec20b14846b3835877ffa9b7c7-43c677ec20b14846b3835877ffa9b7c7-0.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/212\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/11\/capt.43c677ec20b14846b3835877ffa9b7c7-43c677ec20b14846b3835877ffa9b7c7-0-thumb-399x286-19399.jpg\" width=\"399\" height=\"286\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center;margin: 0 auto 20px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div>John Allen offers <a href=\"http:\/\/ncronline.org\/blogs\/ncr-today\/three-keys-reading-dolan-win-usccb\">his two cents:<\/a><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn Dolan, the bishops have turned to their most gifted natural communicator, a leader with a demonstrated capacity to project a positive image for Catholicism in the public square. Rather than electing a behind-the-scenes broker of compromise, in other words, the bishops tapped their best front man. That choice could be taken as an imminently rational reaction to recent events&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;In many ways, Dolan is a high-octane, populist American expression of what I&#8217;ve called the &#8220;affirmative orthodoxy&#8221; of Benedict XVI: no compromise on matters of Catholic identity, but a determination to express that identity in the most positive key possible, keeping lines of conversation open with people outside the fold. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Allen acknowledges that he wasn&#8217;t there for the Big Event yesterday.  But someone who  <i>was<\/i> there offered his analysis on <a href=\"http:\/\/netny.net\/currents\/\">&#8220;Currents&#8221;<\/a> last night.   <a href=\"http:\/\/netny.net\/currents\/video\/stories\/abp-dolan-president-of-the-usccb-111610\/\">Check out Rocco Palmo&#8217;s take here. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>There were also a few warm words offered on the show from Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski.  <a href=\"http:\/\/netny.net\/currents\/video\/stories\/catholicism-in-cuba-111610\/\">Check &#8217;em out. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Allen offers his two cents: In Dolan, the bishops have turned to their most gifted natural communicator, a leader with a demonstrated capacity to project a positive image for Catholicism in the public square. Rather than electing a behind-the-scenes broker of compromise, in other words, the bishops tapped their best front man. 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