review<\/a> doesn’t note these, pointing instead to the organization’s protests at the New York Stock Exchange, CBS News, the White House, and the Bush summer compound at Kennebunkport. ACT UP protested wherever it saw powers-that-be. <\/p>\nI don’t exactly know what it is the Dolan would have the Times <\/i>do. Avoid reviewing plays that deal with nuns and popular culture? Bar from its pages any organization that disrespects his church? Do penance by urging the Empire State Building to light itself up for Mother Teresa? <\/p>\n
A friend of mine who’s a priest in Dolan’s old Milwaukee archdiocese counseled me to expect more disappointment from his former boss. The man, he said, really thinks that back-slapping and joking will always carry the day. And when he does get involved positively in an important issue, such as (as he initially did) standing up against the ugly opposition to the Islamic Center in Lower Manhattan, he pulls back as soon as he hears from his friends on the Catholic right. <\/p>\n
After all, why defend those who really need it when you can portray your own kind as victims?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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I’m afraid to say that His Merry Rotundity Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, is bidding fair to turn into the ecclesiastical twin of His Grumpy Bullyship William Donohue, president of the Catholic League. They’re both of a size, and though when they show up on your doorstep it’s Tim the Good Cop and Bill the Bad, sure it’s the same agenda that they have. <\/p>\n