{"id":14417,"date":"2012-04-30T17:47:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T23:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=14417"},"modified":"2012-05-02T23:34:21","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T05:34:21","slug":"dolan-on-the-vatican-to-the-sisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/30\/dolan-on-the-vatican-to-the-sisters\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal Dolan on the Vatican to the Sisters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You gotta love Cardinal Dolan. What a gregarious, infectiously joyful and optimistic public face of the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday he was interviewed by WPIX on hot button issues such as the contraception mandate and the Vatican&#8217;s action toward the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. Wow, talk about putting a positive spin on things. Here&#8217;s his take on the Vatican disciplining of the sisters:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The Vatican praises them, compliments them, says, \u201cWhere would we be without the sisters? We love you, we want to work with you, we appreciate the dialogue, we want to keep it going. We do need to bring to your attention some concerns that we hear from a lot of people, including women religious, about some of the doctrinal areas where you\u2019ve been straying, and we want to point that out to [us]. &#8230; But let\u2019s do it as friends, in a very\u00a0reasoned dialogue.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>I\u2019m kind of grateful that the leadership of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, they\u2019ve been rather temperate and measured. They seem to appreciate the friendship and the invitation to dialogue. \u2026\u00a0 I hear most sisters saying, \u201cThis sting a little, but they\u2019ve got some points. Maybe we need to relook at things, maybe we have not expressed things in the best way.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Watch the whole video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpix.com\/videogallery\/69646603\/News\/News-Closeup--4\/28--Segment-1#pl-62852362\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0I expect <em>Pray Tell<\/em> readers will have some reactions to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vatican says to the sisters, &#8220;We appreciate the dialogue, we want to keep it going. But let&#8217;s do it as friends, in a very reasoned dialogue. 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