Such a statement to make the Church appear reasonable is littering this nation with a wasteland of lies.
There are bishops and there are bishops. For some reason, Dolan is constantly trying to suck up to the government. He obviously thinks that dictatorial socialized medicine is popular and that the Church would be perceived as a stick in the mud, retrograde, anti-Obama force if he opposed it. He’s been a real disappointment in New York., which needed somebody strong and unashamed, but got a boot licker.
Nobody objects to providing health care for the poor, and the Church was doing it long before governments got involved. However, having a complete government takeover of health care is not synonymous with providing health care to the poor, but with having government take over every aspect of the individual’s life and make moral and ethical decisions for everyone, Catholic or not. Dolan is an extremely shallow thinker and is, for unknown reasons, terrified of offending Obama.