It’s interesting. You post the article criticizing Dolan, and then you run to the defense of the bishops. Puzzling. If I were a sceptic I might be inclined to believe that Cardinal Dolan, himself wrote your unabashed defense of the bishops of the Church. Note well, my criticism is not of the Church, but only of the bishops of the Church.
Like the bishops, you seem to believe that Christ set up His Church for the purpose of feeding the poor, clothing the naked, caring for the sick, educating the masses and so on. Respectfully, if that is what you believe, you are wrong. And if you didn’t know, the Church, prior to Vatican II, use to teach that as well. Check out the Baltimore Catechism some time and you’ll learn that Christ founded His Church for one reason––to lead all mankind to salvation––not to feed the poor.
The bishops, and apparently you as well, believe that the role of the Church is to compete with the federal, state, secular (including humanistic and atheistic) bureaucracies that have those same goals as well. Yes, the bishops are greatly praised by the NYT and the W/P for their great humanitarian efforts, but while they preen for the cameras, many souls that the Church was founded to serve are being lost by the wayside. They are, indeed, sheep without a shepherd.
As for the quaint notion that Catholic schools, at any level, have much if anything to do with teaching the Catholic faith, read up some time as to what, and by whom, is actually being taught in our Catholic grade schools and high schools today. The universities since the Land O Lakes agreement are an immoral disaster.
So although your praise of the work of the bishops may sound very “Catholic” to you and others (can you say low-information voter?), you have been greatly misled by those who have instructed you. May I suggest that you subscribe to the Catholic Family News or the Remnant news publications and read them for a few months. If you disagree with their points of view, fine; but at least you will have heard the other side, so to speak.
Did I miss something? Where did NYer run to the defense of the bishops?
That's exactly how I feel in regards to the American bishops: no real leadership whatsoever.