Cardinal Dolan’s Conscience Troubled? Not Enough! by Phil Lawler 

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture, July 12, 2023

Writing in Our Sunday Visitor recently, Cardinal Timothy Dolan revealed that he has been examining his conscience:

Did we as a Church, here in the United States, go too far in obeying all the restrictions imposed during the COVID pandemic, resulting in a lack of pastoral care for those sick?

Give the affable prelate from New York some credit; at least he asks the question which so many other Church leaders still avoid. At least his conscience is stirring. But isn’t the answer painfully, blindingly obvious?

Yes, “we as a Church” did go too far— much too far— in slavish obedience to intrusive regulations that compounded the suffering. Yes, there was a staggering, scandalous lack of pastoral care for the sick— and for the healthy as well. Our churches were closed. Our people were denied the sacraments. What more evidence do we need, to make our Church leaders recognize that they betrayed their mission? …

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