How Will Mainstream Media Cover Cardinal Dolan's Benediction at the DNC?

When the DNC caved and invited Roman Catholic Cardinal Timothy Dolan to deliver their convention's closing benediction tonight, it presented the mainstream media with a problem. Would they cover his DNC benediction any differently than they covered his RNC benediction last week in Tampa?

Fox News covered it as the last featured event of the convention, which it was. CNN merely played the audio of the benediction in the background, while MSNBC ignored it entirely.

The curiosity surrounding Cardinal Dolan's treatment at the DNC tonight was heightened by yesterday's disastrous Democratic platform "put God and Israel back in" ram-down.....

Viewers of the convention could see with their own eyes and ears that the majority of the delegates to the DNC actively booed putting God back in the platform...

Cardinal Dolan's measured, faith oriented non-partisan benediction at the RNC contained EIGHT REFERENCES TO GOD. How will the majority of delegates to the DNC react to a similar benediction from Cardinal Dolan after they reacted so vocally in opposition to the inclusion of one reference to God in the 40 page Democratic platform?

The idea that our liberties in the United States of America derive from God rather than government featured as prominently in Cardinal Dolan's prayer at the RNC as it did in the prayers offered by George Washington and Benjamin Franklin at the founding of the republic:[read RNC speech at site).....

Dolan's references to the "inalienable gift of life" resonated with the delegates at the RNC. It remains to be seen if he will make similar references in tonight's benediction, especially given prominence given to the Democratic Party's pro-abortion policies at the DNC.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan delivered the benediction at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte on Thursday night and inserted heavy pro-life messaging as well as the fact that government "serves its citizens rather than itself" into his remarks: (bolding is mine)

A Prayer for Our Country at the Republican National Convention
With firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, let us pray.
Almighty God, father of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Jesus, we beg your continued blessings on this sanctuary of freedom, and on all of those who proudly call America home.
We ask your benediction upon those yet to be born, and on those who are about to see you at the end of this life.
Bless those families whose ancestors arrived on these shores generations ago, as well as those families that have come recently, to build a better future while weaving their lives into the rich tapestry of America.
We lift up to your loving care those afflicted by the recent storms and drought and fire.
We ask for the grace to stand in solidarity with all those who suffer. May we strive to include your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free in the production and prosperity of a people so richly blessed.
Oh God of wisdom, justice, and might! We ask your guidance for those who govern us, and on those who would govern us: the president and vice-president, the Congress, the Supreme Court, and on all those who seek to serve the common good by seeking public office, especially Governor Romney and Congressman Ryan. Make them all worthy to serve you by serving our country. And help them remember that the only just government is the government that serves its citizens rather than itself.
Almighty God who gives us the sacred and inalienable gift of life, we thank you as well for the singular gift of liberty. Renew in all of our people a respect for religious freedom in full, that first, most cherished freedom.
Make us truly free by tethering freedom to truth and ordering freedom to goodness. Help us live our freedom in faith, hope and love, prudently and with justice, courageously and in a spirit of moderation.
Enkindle in our hearts a new sense of responsibility for freedom’s cause and make us ever grateful for all those who for more than two centuries have given their lives in freedom’s defense. We commend their noble souls to your eternal care as even now we beg your mighty hand upon our beloved men and women in uniform.
May we know the truth of your creation, respecting the laws of nature and nature’s God and not seek to replace it with idols of our own making.
Give us the good sense not to cast aside the boundaries of righteous living you first inscribed on our hearts even before inscribing them on tablets of stone.
May you mend our every flaw, confirming our soul in self-control, our liberty in law.
We pray for all those who seek honest labor, as we thank you for the spirit of generosity to those in need with which you so richly blessed this nation.
We beseech your blessing on all who depart from here this evening and on all those in every land who seek to conduct their lives in freedom.
Most of all, Almighty God, we thank you for the great gift of our beloved country. For we are indeed one nation under God, and in God we trust. Dear God, bless America, you who live and reign forever and ever. Amen.

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