Cardinal Timothy Dolan's geniality makes him ill-suited to head up an embattled church in America -- a problem that the unfolding fiasco of the Al Smith dinner illustrates.

The New York prelate's invitation to the Church's most powerful foe, President Barack Obama, has outraged Catholics across the country, who want to know from Dolan: Why would you invite our enemy to a night of merriment? Why would you honor him at an event for a charity that his contraceptive mandate will break? And why would you let him use such an occasion to dupe Catholics into voting for his reelection?

They interpret the invitation as a symbol of episcopal waffling and a worldly church's penchant for prizing prestige over principle, as if guarding the marquee status of the Al Smith dinner were more important than avoiding scandal.

Cardinal Dolan took to his blog this week to answer these critics, relying on the very shaky and threadbare Vatican II-style clichés about "civility" that exposed the Church to a liberal takeover in the first place. "[T]he teaching of the Church, so radiant in the Second Vatican Council, is that the posture of the Church towards culture, society, and government is that of engagement and dialogue," Dolan wrote. "In other words, it's better to invite than to ignore, more effective to talk together than to yell from a distance, more productive to open a door than to shut one."

Catholics have heard this prattle for decades and find it very tiresome in light of its pathetic results. When has "engagement" and "dialogue" ever strengthened the Church? All it has produced is a steady stream of pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage Catholic pols who slamdunk secularism over timid bishops. The need to "engage the world" has in short made the Church worldly, leading to endless compromises within Catholic institutions, all of which signaled to secularists like Obama that the American Church was ripe for a statist hijacking.

Obama's gamble -- that he could simultaneously win the single female vote and the Catholic vote in spite of his brazen mandate -- could very well pay off. The most recent polling shows Obama leading Romney among Catholic voters 51 to 42. He can have his cake and eat it too -- and at the Al Smith dinner to boot.

Cardinal Dolan is kidding himself if he thinks the evening will involve "dialogue" that changes Obama's mind about the mandate. The Church will not be roasting Obama; Obama will be roasting the Church. That's why he scooped up the invitation so happily. Photos of Obama chuckling with churchmen will appear everywhere after it, signaling to confused Catholics in swing states that Obama poses no threat to their freedom.

Notre Dame fell back on the same "dialogue" rationale when it granted Obama an honorary degree. No dialogue, of course, took place. Obama did all the talking, even lecturing Notre Dame graduates on the superiority of secularism to faith in public life. Prize "doubt," he told them.

Cardinal Dolan rejects any comparison to the Notre Dame debacle, but he finds himself in a similar box of contradiction, asserting at once that the invitation lacks any significance while defending it as an important moment of "engagement" and a fulfillment of the Church's mission as determined by the spirit of Vatican II. The irony is that if he sincerely intends to straighten Obama out at it the dinner will cease to be the harmless, jovial, civil evening for which he says it exists. He can't have it both ways. Is it roast? Or is it a moment of evangelization?

Cardinal Dolan frets that he might have caused more scandal by not inviting Obama. He can't be serious. Does anyone blame the late Cardinal John O'Connor for scandalizing Catholics by not inviting Bill Clinton to the Al Smith dinner? Or Cardinal Egan for denying an invite to John Kerry? Cardinal Dolan's notion of "scandal" is very confused if he thinks so.

Cardinal Dolan concludes his defense by suggesting that Jesus Christ would approve of his decision: "In the end, I'm encouraged by the example of Jesus, who was blistered by his critics for dining with those some considered sinners; and by the recognition that, if I only sat down with people who agreed with me, and I with them, or with those who were saints, I'd be taking all my meals alone."

But this ignores the reason Christ ate wth sinners: not to pose for a photo op with them but to convert them to his teachings. The moment they rejected him he ceased the dinners, telling his disciples not to "cast pearls before swine" and "shake the dust" from their heels and leave.

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Phone: 1-212-371-1000

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Diocese of New York
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LEADERS: LAX AND CORRUPT
"Women have become immoral; men have debased their bodies. Homosexuality is rampant throughout your country and all the nations of the world. Your leaders are lax and corrupt. There are very few voices with authority crying out against the sins that shall bring destruction upon your nation and many nations of the world.” – Our Lady, July 14, 1979

PRAY FOR LEADERS
"The leaders of your country and the leaders throughout the world have taken upon themselves a measure of sin creating insanity.
"In the light of the Spirit descending from Heaven, you shall be given the knowledge of truth, My children. Accept it and take it as your candle, for you must now go throughout your world saving your brothers, preparing them for what lies ahead.” – Our Lady, September 13, 1975

DOCTORS
"Doctors now are profaning their profession, those who have given themselves over to destroying human life in abortions." - Jesus, June 6, 1987

HOMOSEXUALITY
"What can you expect upon your country which allows homosexuality to flourish and become the way of life which now your leaders under a banner of truthfulness and faithfulness to his God, have now torn down that banner and is going in the direction of satan.
"Laws are being made now to protect the offenders of God, the homosexuals. Mankind will have a banner ahead. There will be tribulations set upon the world before My Son returns to gather His own. Yes, in time many will be removed from the earth. However, there will be a tribulation before that moment.” – Our Lady, October 6, 1992

DESTROYED
"All who become part of or condone abortion, the murder of the young, shall be destroyed!" - Jesus, June 2, 1979

WRATH OF THEIR LORD
"There is in your atmosphere of earth a Ball of Redemption hurrying to earth. It is of supernatural origin. Those who have cast aside the knowledge of the supernatural shall not be given the grace to observe the coming Chastisement. When it enters upon your atmosphere, hearts shall be gripped with fear. Many shall run to hide themselves, recognizing the wrath of their Lord.” - Our Lady, September 13, 1975

UNDER A DICTATORSHIP OF EVIL
"My Son, His heart is torn asunder by His representatives in the priesthood who now are Judases in His own House. They consort with the enemies of your God. In the manner of humanism and modernism, and an ecumenism that has been designed from hell, man now is plunging fast into making ready the full capitulation of My Son's Church and the world under a dictatorship of evil.
"When the world and My Son's Church becomes as one, when the evil men of the cross have sought to destroy My Son within His own House, know that the end is near at hand. I say unto you, as your Mother: as you sow, so shall you reap!” – Our Lady, November 22, 1976

A SUPREME DICTATOR OF EVIL
"A delusion has been set upon mankind. The Eternal Father has deemed that man shall go along now and reap what he has sown. Man is forever searching for peace--peace of heart, peace in armaments. But the more he cries for peace the farther he flies from it. There shall be no peace upon earth unless man returns to his God.
"The state of your world has been reduced by the immorality. The state of your world is capitulating now to all of the forces of the octopus that will seek to bring about a one-world religion and a one-world government under a supreme dictator of evil.” – Our Lady, March 18, 1978

GOVERNMENT
"For that one reason among many, the United States will suffer unless there is placed into your government a group that fears the Lord if they cannot love the Lord. They will fear Him and find measures to stop the slaughter of the unborn." - Our Lady, April 14, 1984

PREPARE FOR GREAT PERSECUTION
"My child and My children, My heart is very sad that I must bring you this urgent but final Message from Heaven. The Eternal Father has sent Me as a Mediatrix from God to man all about your world, the earth, crying out warnings from Heaven to mankind, warnings that only a few have heeded. And now the hour is approaching, the hour of darkness and sadness. Many parents shall have tears of anguish brought into their homes by the coming events.
"My children, please, as your Mother I ask you in all charity to go forward and warn your brothers and sisters to prepare for great persecution. There will be many catastrophes now befalling your earth until the great Warning, and then the final Chastisement. O My children, will you not listen to Me!” – Our Lady, November 20, 1978

TO REMOVE CHRISTIANITY
"My dear parents, please! Listen to your Mother. Listen to what I have to say to you, for I tell you the truth. The Eternal Father sees all, and makes us knowledgeable as to what is happening upon earth that will bring its eventual destruction. Your children are being educated in the schools to take all Christianity from their lives, and believe not in the supernatural things of God, but the diabolical processes of satan, in cults.” - Our Lady, June 18, 1987

POLITICAL POWERS, MONEY POWERS
"There is an octopus, a web of evil now fanning out throughout your world. Political powers, money powers--these have all gathered to bring about the destruction of Christianity. My children, the Luciferians are loose now in great numbers upon your earth. They will work through persons, places, and things. Remember this, My children: persons, places, and things." - Our Lady, June 18, 1978

PRAYER OUTLAWED
"My child and My children, prayer has not become a way of life for many. That is why communism has got such a foothold in your country and in other countries of the world. The prayers given to you in your childhood will be remembered always, I know, My children; but there are those who have not received these prayers in their schools, for prayer has been outlawed in many areas of your country and the world. It took but a few without faith to bring down the flag, for even your country's flag is being defiled, My children.” - Our Lady, October 2, 1987

RELIGION STATE-CONTROLLED IN COMMUNIST COUNTRIES
"In many countries throughout your world it appears, My children--and I say, appears--that the communist country leaders are permitting religions within their rule. This is a sham, My children, a cover-up for the fact that it is state-controlled." - Our Lady, May 13, 1978

OATH
"Your once loyal to the oath of a doctor, your once loyal doctors are now butchers! For money they kill the young!" - Our Lady, February 10, 1978

WOE TO THE WOMAN
"Know, My child, this simple lesson, that in these days of the latter times, women will seek to cast off their role as mother and a woman. Women will cast it off under the direction of satan, and murder her children. Woe to the woman who does not repent of this vile abomination! She has walked the road to eternal damnation and hell. Repent, O woman, or forever be lost!" - Our Lady, March 18, 1975  

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