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A People of Hope: Archbishop Timothy Dolan in Conversation with John L. Allen Jr.by John L. Allen
One of the world's most respected religion journalists profiles New York's Archbishop Timothy Dolan, one of the country's—and possibly the world's—most important Catholic leaders through lengthy exclusive interviews.
Unique among the current leadership of the Catholic Church, Archbishop Dolan shares his insightful perspective/b>
One of the world's most respected religion journalists profiles New York's Archbishop Timothy Dolan, one of the country's—and possibly the world's—most important Catholic leaders through lengthy exclusive interviews.
Unique among the current leadership of the Catholic Church, Archbishop Dolan shares his insightful perspective in this series of conversations on the present and future of Catholicism. In these pages Dolan shares a perspective which is typically not part of the information an average person would know through today's media. This omission often leaves outsiders with a terribly flawed grasp of what's actually happening in the Church. Legitimate stories on, for example, abuse and Church authority can't be dissolved by reactive conspiracy theories about how the media is out to get the Catholic Church. That said, if these scandals are all there is to the Catholic Church, why would anyone bother being Catholic?
It may not be surprising that there are an estimated 22 million ex-Catholics out there, yet it is revealing that even more people have chosen to remain with the Church. Tens of millions of Americans, and hundreds of millions more around the world, still turn to the Church for inspiration, for its sacramental life, for its experience of community and service. In every diocese in America you can find parishes that are flourishing.
The faith represented there is not an exaggerated religious frenzy that feeds an uncritical view of the Church. Catholics are nothing if not sober realists about the humanity of their institutions and leaders. They see the Church not as a debating society or a multinational enterprise, but a family—with all the flaws and dysfunction, but also all the joy and life, of families everywhere. This is why Archbishop Dolan is such an important part of the Church's emerging landscape.
In A People of Hope Dolan is seen at his best, capturing an upbeat, hopeful, affirming Catholicism that's the untold story about the Church today. As readers spend time with Dolan here, they may find that his love for people and zest for friendship is what's truly fundamental about the man, not a PR device calculated to conceal some other agenda. Dolan can and does draw lines in the sand when he believes that core matters of Catholic identity are at stake. He's well aware that we live in a deeply secular world in the West, in which powerful pressures, both subtle and overt, seek to blur the counter-cultural message of Catholicism on many fronts. One key to Dolan's character, however, is that changing hearts, not knocking heads, is always his first instinct.
John Allen draws out a picture of future trends by exploring where Dolan wants to lead, and how will a Church that increasingly bears his imprint look and feel? To understand this, what's really necessary is to get inside his head and then let him speak for himself. To that end Allen frames questions in a way that allows Dolan to expand on the topic himself as much as possible. The result is a book more "with" Dolan than a book "about" him, which is indeed the best way to understand the man. At the end, one can agree or disagree with Dolan's outlook, but one may at least be better equipped to understand why thoughtful modern women and men might still believe there's something worth considering in the Catholic message.
Whatever the future may have in store for Dolan—staying in New York until he dies, being called to Rome to work in a senior Vatican post, or something else entirely—he will be a force in the Catholic Church both nationally and internationally for some time to come, and it's well worth trying to discern what that might mean.
Editorial Reviews
"John Allen is the English-speaking world's most informed, most insightful and most balanced commentator on the Roman Catholic Church today. Allen consistently offers richly textured reportage that refuses to opt for the superficial take on church events. His extensive travels across the globe, his years cultivating relationships among theologians, local church leaders and Vatican officials, his genuine curiosity regarding the manifold factors, apparent and hidden, that shape church events—all have uniquely equipped him to produce his most recent volume.….Allen's book offers the reader a compelling account of the challenges and possibilities that lie before the Catholic Church in this still young century. Those who are invested in its future will find it an indispensable resource." -America
"A thoughtful, well-argued, well-written book." –Winnepeg Free Press
"Perceptive, evenhanded, thought provoking, horizon expanding, remarkably well informed" –National Catholic Reporter
"[A] superb book" —Chicago Sun-Times
"An exceedingly valuable book." —Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, First Things
"An invaluable primer . . . highly informative." —Washington Post
"Definitely a winner." —Minneapolis Star Tribune
"It's surprising how much you learn from this book . . . [Allen] explain[s] the process in an engaging way, and offers history, context and his own list of front-runners." —Arizona Republic
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- 11/01/2011
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A People of HopeArchbishop Timothy Dolan in Conversation with John L. Allen Jr.
By John L. Allen
ImageCopyright © 2011 John L. Allen
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Historic runs of success always become the stuff of legend. In baseball, Joe DiMaggio's fi fty- six- game hitting streak in 1941 still sets the standard for consistent excellence. Basketball fans will always celebrate the eighty- eight- game winning streak the UCLA Bruins put together from 1971 to 1974, as well as the companion ninety- game unblemished mark posted by the Lady Huskies of the University of Connecticut from 2008 to 2010. In the world of entertainment, people still marvel at the thirty- seven- week run of Michael Jackson's Thriller album atop the Billboard charts in 1983 to 1984, or the fifteen consecutive weeks as box offi ce champ logged by the blockbuster movie Titanic in 1997.
While there's no exact parallel in the Catholic Church to a winning streak or a long run at the box office, perhaps the closest anyone's come in recent memory was the eye- popping run of promotions, honors, papal votes of confidence, and signs of growing celebrity racked up by Archbishop Timothy Michael Dolan of New York from February 2009 to June 2011. Consider the record put together over that span by Dolan, sixty- one years old as of this writing, which, by ecclesiastical standards, is still quite young:
• On February 23, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI named Dolan the tenth archbishop of New York, after serving just under seven years as the archbishop of Milwaukee. In Catholic terms, New York is on a short list of pace- setting dioceses around the world, such as Milan in Italy, Paris in France, and Westminster in the United Kingdom, whose incumbent is seen as a global point of reference. New York is traditionally considered the most important bully pulpit in the American Catholic Church, and since New York is also the media capital of the world, its archbishop is inevitably a premier "front man" for Catholicism.
• On May 31, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI tapped Dolan as an "Apostolic Visitor" to Ireland, helping lead the Vatican's response to that country's massive sexual- abuse crisis. Benedict is deeply worried about Ireland, once a cornerstone of Catholic culture in Europe, and his concern was refl ected in his choice of visitors. They included Cardinal Cormac Murphy- O'Connor, the former archbishop of Westminster, England; Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston;Archbishop Thomas Collins of Toronto, Canada; and Archbishop Terrence Prendergast of Ottawa, Canada. All are considered among the most infl uential prelates in the English- speaking world, and Dolan is now on that list.
• On November 16, 2010, Dolan was elected president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, making him the de facto leader and spokesperson for more than 250 Catholic bishops who run dioceses and other jurisdictions across the country. (He'll hold the position until November 2013.) Dolan prevailed in the balloting despite a strong custom in the conference that the sitting vice president, at the time Bishop Gerald Kicanas of Tucson, Arizona, automatically ascends to the top job. In effect, the upset result means Dolan's fellow bishops weren't just following a script — they wanted him, specifi cally, to be their voice.
• On January 5, 2011, Pope Benedict XVI named Dolan a member of a new Vatican council designed to promote "New Evangelization," which is the apple of the pope's eye. (To be honest, no one yet has a clear idea of what this office might do; what's relevant is that Benedict XVI takes it seriously.) Dolan joined heavy- hitters such as Cardinal Angelo Scola of Milan; Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi of the Pontifical Council for Culture; Cardinal George Pell of Sydney, Australia; Cardinal Christoph Schönborn of Vienna, Austria; Cardinal Marc Ouellet of the Congregation for Bishops; and Cardinal William Levada of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. That's a Vatican "A Team" if ever there was one, and the fact that Dolan is part of it, even in advance of getting a cardinal's red hat, speaks volumes about where he stands. (Dolan himself says his first reaction upon scanning the list of names was "My Lord, how did I make this cut?")
• On March 20, 2011, the famed CBS News program 60 Minutes devoted an entire segment to Dolan, proclaiming him the Catholic Church's answer to its woes of the past decade, including the sexual- abuse crisis and a steady attrition of the faithful. The introductory voice- over for the segment dubbed Dolan the "American pope." In comments after the piece aired, host Morley Safer, who clearly did not share Dolan's views on a range of controversial questions such as abortion and gay marriage, nonetheless said of the archbishop: "He is a genuinely jovial, life- embracing, people- loving man. There's no question of that."
• Two months later, on June 2, 2011, Dolan traveled to Rome for the first meeting of the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization. He was accompanied by Matt Lauer, Al Roker, and the crew of NBC's Today show, the highest- rated morning news program in America, with an average daily audience in excess of six million people. Dolan arranged an on- camera introduction to Pope Benedict XVI as well as behind- the- scenes Vatican access for the Today crew, and then effectively cohosted a live broadcast from Rome. During the segment, Lauer described Dolan as the "highest- profile person now of the Catholic Church in the United States," someone with "enormous charisma, a great personality."
Collectively, this was a remarkable rise to prominence in a short arc of time, especially in an institution typically inclined to think in centuries. By the time the dust had settled, there could be no doubt about Dolan's status. Prior to February 2009, one could have made a compelling argument that Timothy Dolan was a key to the American Catholic future. By the spring of 2011, it had become crystal clear that Dolan is very much the Church's present —Rome's go- to guy in America, the prelate other American bishops look to for leadership, and the new media darling of the Church in the United States. Nor is Dolan quite finished yet. Sometime in 2012 or 2013, right around the time his term as president of the U.S. bishops' conference is ending, Dolan will likely be inducted into the College of Cardinals, making him "Cardinal Dolan" and thus eligible to vote for the next pope.
One can celebrate Dolan's ascent or lament it — and, to be sure, there are examples of both views, inside and outside the Catholic Church —but at a purely descriptive level, the bottom line seems clear. Anyone who wants a sense of where the Catholic Church in the United States is headed, at least over the next couple of decades or so, must get to know the man who is now its preeminent face and voice. Further, Dolan's extroverted personality and media savvy suggest that he won't just be a behind- the- scenes power broker, but also an important voice of conscience in public debates for some time to come. A bit like Pat Robertson on the right or Jim Wallis on the left, Dolan is fast becoming one of those religious leaders in American life with impact well beyond the boundaries of his own confessional group.
Easier Said Than Done
Getting a satisfying read on Dolan, however, is easier said than done. In part, that's because he's a larger- than- life character who, upon first contact, tend to overwhelm one's senses. He's over six feet tall and a wide load of a man, reflecting his love for food, drink, and a good cigar, and his relative lack of enthusiasm for formal exercise. He's got a booming voice, a raucous laugh, and a kilowatt- laced smile that could probably power several blocks of downtown Manhattan. He's quick with a joke, the kind of hale- fellow- well- met who never saw a back he didn't want to slap or a baby he didn't want to kiss. Had Timothy Dolan not become a Catholic bishop, he could easily have been a U.S. senator or a corporate CEO, such is his charm and relentless energy.
At a time when the public image of Catholic bishops in the United States is arguably at an all- time low as a result of a persistent sexual- abuse crisis, bruising political fights over health care reform and gay marriage, and a variety of other issues, not to mention the general difficulty of asserting religious authority in a culture profoundly skeptical of such claims, Dolan stands out as a towering exception to the dour stereotype — a truly nice guy who also happens to wear a miter. In general, people tend to be so dazzled the first few times they encounter Dolan that it takes a while for their critical faculties to come back on- line, so they can begin to ask: "But what is this guy really all about?"
Dolan is so relentlessly upbeat, in fact, that one risk is to reduce him to nothing but a series of one- liners and photo ops. That was the thrust of a 2009 profi le in New York magazine that labeled Dolan the "Archbishop of Charm" — suggesting, perhaps, that beneath Dolan's one- liners, there's not much "there" there. It doesn't help that Dolan loves to take shots at himself, deliberately playing off such impressions. I once watched him drop in on a meeting of lay movements where he didn't make many statements but asked a lot of probing questions. When I commented on it later, he said: "I figure I can get away with acting dumb for about the first year . . . until they realize that I ain't acting!"
In truth, Dolan is far more than simply a charmer. There are at least three deep currents to his personality, which sometimes sit in uneasy tension with one another. First, Dolan tends to be an ideological conservative on matters both secular and sacred, giving him a strong sense of identity and a clear vision for where the Church ought to go. (In his 60 Minutes interview, Dolan said that if "conservative" means "somebody enthusiastically committed to and grateful for the timeless heritage of the Church . . . I'm a conservative, no doubt.") Second, he's a country pastor, whose implied model for Catholic life is his father's backyard BBQ pit in Ballwin, Missouri, where all are welcome and everyone gets along. Third, Dolan is a keen Church historian, having studied under the legendary Monsignor John Tracy Ellis at the Catholic University of America. That training affords him a striking ability to ask probing questions, to stand back, and to size up debates objectively, being fair to all views.
Part of the drama of Tim Dolan —part of what makes him such a fascinating, and at times unpredictable, force in Catholic life —is trying to guess which combination of those instincts will prevail in any given situation.
Dolan Vignettes
Because of Dolan's outsized personality and complex character, no one anecdote can do him justice. The following are three vignettes that, taken together, capture something of the Timothy Dolan experience. Among other things, they illustrate how Dolan is able to win friends and influence people, both at the top of the Church and at the grassroots, and even among non- Catholics with a chip on their shoulders about the Church. Taken together, these stories also help explain Dolan's rapid rise into the ecclesiastical stratosphere.
"Even I'd join the Church!"
In late December 2009, I spent an exhausting week following Dolan around in New York. The schedule included a stop at the renowned Temple Emanu- El in order to light the first candle of Hanukkah. (Among other notables, New York mayor Michael Bloomberg is a member of the congregation.) One could make the argument that New York's Fifth Avenue is among the most evocative pieces of Jewish- Catholic real estate on the planet, home both to Temple Emanu- El and to St. Patrick's Cathedral. On this occasion, the congregation pulled out all the stops to celebrate Dolan's visit, including something you definitely don't see every day: At the end of the service, the choir performed a toe- tapping, doo- wop version of the classic holiday number "I Have a Little Dreidel," which could easily be the anchor track on a Hanukkah Goes Motown album. After the service, Dolan was mobbed by people wanting to thank him for coming, to get their pictures taken with him, and to shove pieces of Hanukkah cake into his hands.
I was hovering off to the side, trying to watch the scene unfold. At one stage, a member of the temple's governing board pulled me aside for a chat. He asked what I did for a living, and I said I'm a journalist who covers the Catholic Church. That prompted this proud septuagenarian Jew to launch into a semi- tirade about Pope Pius XII, the mess over Pope Benedict's decision to lift the excommunication of a Holocaust- denying bishop, and what he sees as broad rollback on relations with Judaism from the Church. Having worked himself into a lather, he then asked what I was doing in New York, and I explained that I was working on a book about Dolan.
The guy's body language changed in a flash. Conspiratorially, he drew close, smiled, and offered this sotto voce comment:"He's such a magnifi cent human being . . . If every bishop were like Dolan, even I'd consider joining the Church!"
"Ah, my friend Dolan!"
One gorgeous Italian Saturday in early May 2011, I found myself in Spoleto, a small town in the Umbria region about an hour and a half north of Rome. I had been asked to say a few words at the opening of a photo exhibit dedicated to Pope John Paul II, timed to coincide with the late pope's beatification on May 1, 2011. The featured speaker was Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, head of the Vatican's Congregation for Eastern Churches, and formerly the "substitute" in the Vatican's Secretariat of State under John Paul II, meaning the official responsible for day- to- day administration of the Church. It was Sandri, sixty- seven, an Argentine by birth who hails from an Italian family, who announced John Paul's death to the world from St. Peter's Square on April 2, 2005, memorably saying:"We all feel like orphans tonight."
Just days before the Spoleto event, I had written a piece proclaiming Sandri a leading candidate to be the next pope. Such perceptions are sort of the third rail of Vatican politics —no one, ever, wants to be seen as campaigning for the job. As fate would have it, I ended up seated next to Sandri at lunch, which could have made things a bit awkward. In the course of conversation, however, I mentioned that I was working on a book with Dolan, and the previously restrained Sandri lit up:"Ah, my friend Dolan!" It turns out that Sandri served in the papal embassy in Washington, D.C., during the same period that Dolan worked there in the late eighties and early nineties, and like so many others, Sandri was won over by the up- and- coming young American cleric.
From that moment on, the ice at our table was melted —an instance, perhaps, of Dolan working his charm even at a distance. Among other things, the loosened- up Sandri told a hilarious story of visiting Los Angeles in summer 2009 for a meeting with the Maronite church, which has its origins in Lebanon. When Sandri presented his Vatican passport at LAX, an official of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection service apparently asked him:"Oh, are you part of the Vatican delegation for the Michael Jackson funeral?" Sandri laughingly said he had to explain there was no such animal.
As the lunch broke up, Sandri made a point of asking me to be sure to pass along my regards to his "good friend" in New York.
"He makes me feel good to be Catholic"
After arriving in New York, Dolan made a point of moving around the archdiocese to visit each of its vicariates, referring to a geographical subdivision of the archdiocese. The usual formula is for Dolan to arrive early in order to have dinner with the priests of the area, offering some informal remarks, which sometimes amount to talking off the cuff about whatever happened during his day. After dinner, Dolan leads a vespers service for area Catholics in a local parish. Afterwards, he goes to a cafeteria or gym, where he stands for hours to personally greet hundreds of people who line up to shake his hand, whisper something in his ear, and have their pictures taken with him.
One night in late 2009, I watched Dolan make one of these visits in affluent Westchester County, where an overflow crowd kept him shaking hands and having quick chats almost until midnight. At one point, a woman spent a few minutes talking to Dolan, got tears in her eyes, and then made her way over to a corner of the room to compose herself. I happened to be standing nearby, so she introduced herself and asked if I was from the parish. I explained that I was a journalist working on a book about Dolan, and she said:"I'm a lifelong Catholic, but the last few years it's been so hard . . . with the sex- abuse scandals, with bishops who don't seem to listen, with all of it."
She told me she was basically on the liberal wing of many intra- Catholic debates and couldn't help feeling that the authorities in her own church are trying to squeeze her out because of her views on women, on authority, and on any number of other issues. Her encounter with Dolan, however, had given her a new perspective.
"I came tonight not knowing what to expect," she said, "but this guy . . . I don't know, somehow he just makes me feel good about being Catholic."
The Rest of the Story
That last story hints at a core motive for this book. Uniquely among the current crop of nationally and internationally prominent bishops, Dolan offers a way to tell the "rest of the story" about the Catholic Church — meaning the portion of the Catholic story typically left in the shadows by most media coverage, an omission that often leaves outsiders with a terribly flawed grasp of what is actually happening in the Church.
To explain what I mean by "the rest of the story," I need to inject myself into the narrative just a bit.
My beat as a journalist is the global Catholic Church, with a special eye on the Vatican and the papacy. In practice, that means a considerable percentage of my time is devoted to stories of crisis, scandal, and controversy, the kinds of things that tend to dominate secular coverage of religion. Aside from the sexual- abuse crisis, I've covered political tensions within Catholicism in the United States over President Barack Obama, health care reform, and abortion; interfaith spats between the Catholic Church and both Muslims and Jews, not to mention other Christians; a global cause célèbre about a decision of Pope Benedict in 2009 to lift the excommunications of four traditionalist Catholic bishops, including one who is a Holocaust- denier; and a whole cluster of eternal Catholic debating points, such as priestly celibacy, contraception, the ordination of women to the priesthood, gay rights and gay marriage, ecclesiastical power and the limits of dissent, and so on.
These are all important stories, and conspiracy theories about how the media is out to get the Catholic Church can't dissolve the legitimate questions they raise. That said, these stories nevertheless leave an obvious question hanging: If this is all there is to the Catholic Church —scandal, controversy, public- relations meltdowns, and bruising political fights — why would anyone bother being Catholic? Surely there's enough pain and polarization in the outside world, so why would anyone go looking for it in church? If one had to assess Catholic fortunes in America merely on the basis of most media coverage, the surprise would not be that there are an estimated twenty- two million ex- Catholics out there, who taken together would form the second largest religious body in the country. The real surprise would be that anyone has stuck it out at all.
And yet, they come. Hundreds of millions of Catholics across the globe, including an estimated sixteen to twenty million in America, still show up for Mass every Sunday. The numbers of young people opting for the Catholic priesthood and religious life are slowly inching up, even in the United States. Tens of millions of Americans, and hundreds of millions more around the world, still turn to the Church for inspiration, for its sacramental life, for its experience of community and service. In every diocese in America, if you look hard enough, you can find parishes that are flourishing — where the music is good and the preaching at least passable, where the parish itself is a beehive of charitable activity and youth ministry and adult faith formation and on and on. That's not to suggest that everything in the Catholic Church is peaches and cream, but there must be something that draws all those folks, despite the truckload of challenges and headaches facing the Church. Given public images of Catholicism, it's often tough for outsiders to imagine what that "something" might be.
What is it? In a word, it's faith. By that, I don't mean an exaggerated religious frenzy that feeds an uncritical view of the Church. Catholics are nothing if not sober realists about the humanity of their institutions and leaders. One of my favorite writers of detective stories, John Sandford, once had his hero, Lucas Davenport, offer this utterly spot- on observation about Catholic psychology:"Catholics don't scream about Jesus. They scream about the bishop."
When I say "faith," what I mean instead is that at some level, most Catholics really do believe that there's something supernatural about the Church, that it's where God calls them to be despite the well- documented failures to live up to its lofty ideals. As a result, most Catholics, most of the time, don't make decisions about the Church based primarily on ideological considerations —i.e., that they happen to agree with the political priorities of the current leadership class —or on the consumerist logic that the Catholic Church meets their perceived needs better than its competitors in the dynamic American religious marketplace. Instead, with eyes wide open, they still believe the Catholic Church is their spiritual home. Given that frame, they see the Church not as a debating society or a multinational enterprise, but a family — with all the flaws and dysfunction, but also all the joy and life, of families everywhere.
That's where Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York enters the picture.
It's not that Dolan is somehow responsible for the personal decisions of roughly 16 million American Catholics, about one- quarter of the country's total Catholic population of 67 million, to get out of bed on Sunday and go to Mass. Even in New York, where Dolan has a high media profile, probably few Catholics could pick their archbishop out of a line- up. What I mean instead is that Dolan, at his best, incarnates the kind of upbeat, hopeful, affirming Catholicism that's the untold story about the Church today . . . the counterpoint to the Sturm und Drang of crisis and scandal, and at least a partial explanation as to why so many people still turn up at the Church's door. While currents of life are often buried under an avalanche of bad news, Dolan is that rare senior figure who manages to put a warm human face on the Church's public image. As Monsignor Michael Turek, a Saint Louis pastor and former classmate of Dolan, says: "When you meet Dolan, you don't meet a bishop. You meet a real human being who happens to be a bishop. You're not talking to an offi ce or a hat, but a man."
Probably my chief professional frustration is that the Catholic Church I have come to know from the inside —the warmth and laughter one finds in most Catholic circles, the rich intellectual tradition, the vast body of lore, the incredible range of characters, the deep desire to do good, the abiding faith against all odds that thrives even in a secular world, the ability to go anywhere and feel instantly at home, even the love of good food, good drink, and good company —rarely fi nds an echo in my reporting. I wanted to tell the Tim Dolan story in part because it wouldn't leave me with a sense of dissonance between the inner experience of being Catholic, and the public perception of what the Church is all about.
Affirmative Orthodoxy on Steroids
Some time back, I coined the phrase "Affirmative Orthodoxy" to describe the distinctive character of Pope Benedict XVI's teaching. Both parts of that formula are important. Benedict is certainly "orthodox" in the sense of tenaciously defending the core elements of classic Catholic thought, speech, and practice. Yet he's also "affirmative" in the sense of being determined to present the building blocks of orthodoxy in a positive key. The emphasis is on what Catholicism embraces and affirms, what it says "yes" to, rather than what it opposes and condemns. That spirit of Affirmative Orthodoxy runs like a scarlet thread through Benedict's teaching, yet it's often been obscured in media coverage and public perceptions. In part, that's because of the pope's own quiet, scholarly persona, making him hardly the same media magnet as his predecessor John Paul II; and, truth to be told, it's also partly because Benedict's Vatican team has sometimes demonstrated a special genius for shooting itself in the foot.
Archbishop Timothy Dolan is Affirmative Orthodoxy on steroids. He is, to adapt the marketing slogan for the sugar and caffeine – rich Jolt Cola, "all the orthodoxy and twice the affi rmative!"
Without any doubt, Dolan is "orthodox," so much so that most observers would place him firmly on the conservative, if not actually neo- conservative, wing of intra- Catholic debates. When the University of Notre Dame invited Obama to deliver its commencement address in 2009 and awarded him an honorary doctorate, Dolan was among those American bishops who complained that the university had compromised its Catholic identity. When the Catholic Health Association came out in March 2010 in favor of Obama's health care reform package, Dolan told me he agreed with the conservative chorus denouncing the association for appearing "soft" on abortion. He's the kind of bishop who will not tolerate dissent from Catholic teaching on the church's payroll, and he openly admits that he has a second- grader's sense of awe and unquestioning loyalty when it comes to the pope. Dolan proudly proclaims that he's a "John Paul II" bishop, as opposed to the more liberal category of "Vatican II" bishop, meaning someone shaped by a reform- oriented and progressive outlook.
Given the persistent divisions in Catholicism, it's no surprise that some quarters in the Church have been cheered by Dolan's neo- conservative outlook and others frightened by it. Yet whatever one makes of it, it's not really his defining trait, in part because it's widely shared among a growing swath of American bishops. What makes Dolan unique is instead his generosity of spirit, a determination to keep lines of communication open, and a deep conviction that most of life's problems can be solved by sitting down with people over a couple of beers and talking things out. If faced with a choice between reconciliation and recrimination, Dolan will almost invariably prefer the former. For example, while he strenuously objected to Notre Dame's handling of the Obama affair and the Catholic Health Association's position on the Obama reform package, he has resisted calls from some quarters to impose sanctions. Instead, he says he wants to sit down and talk to the leaders at both places, arguing that conversation rather than confrontation is generally the right way to deal with disagreements.
Dolan's guiding philosophy is that when people look at the Catholic Church, they should see a happy place. It's his drive to foster relationships and to preserve an "open door" policy, which insulates him from becoming an ideologue and protects his theology from becoming sectarian.
In terms of the Catholic landscape in the early twenty-fi rst century, Dolan is a leading force in the "evangelical" movement coursing through the Church. Inspired by Pope John Paul II, Catholic evangelicals are tired of internal debate over traditional markers of Catholic identity such as priestly celibacy or episcopal authority. They take a strong sense of Catholic identity for granted, and are eager to use it as a lever with which to transform the world. Though there's nothing necessarily ideological about the evangelical impulse, it tends to be more congenial to the Catholic right than to the left.
Yet, it's striking that so far into his tenure in New York, whatever criticism Dolan has attracted seems fairly evenly divided between the right and the left. Liberals have objected to some of Dolan's public policy pronouncements, such as a blog post in May 2011 in which Dolan referred to proposals for gay marriage as an instance of "Orwellian social engineering." Yet conservatives have also complained about Dolan's reluctance to bring the hammer down. To date, Dolan has not publicly threatened disciplinary measures against New York governor Andrew Cuomo, a pro- choice and pro- gay marriage Catholic Democrat. Dolan himself said he heard more blowback from conservatives after his election as president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, mostly along the lines of how he doesn't walk the talk:"There were some on the right who said Dolan's no more a conservative than anybody else," he said."He talks a good game, but when it comes to the hard choices, he's not going to pull the trigger."
Want an analogy for Tim Dolan?
Think about any movie or play you've ever seen centered on a large, complicated family. If things hold to form, the parents are basically decent, loving people, but who also have a pretty clear sense of right and wrong and who tried to impose it on their kids growing up. There will be those children, now adults, who bought their parents' worldview hook, line, and sinker, and who become almost fanatically defensive when anyone challenges it; there will be a few kids who chafed against it, and sometimes can't even talk about (or to) their parents without those old resentments welling up; and there's usually the one kid still on speaking terms with everybody, and who tries desperately to keep the peace. It's the kid who loves the good in his mom and dad, but who also "gets it" as to why some of his siblings are still smoldering, and whose most cherished dream is putting the pieces back together again. Sometimes everyone loves him for it, and sometimes everybody sees him as a hopeless naïf who's in denial about the reality of the situation. In the end, however, he's the glue who holds the family together.
Dolan is that one kid in the American Catholic Church.
That's not just a matter of a velvet glove fitting neatly over an iron fist. Dolan's soft touch is so celebrated that his critics usually feel compelled to begin their indictment there, suggesting that all the schmaltz amounts to a clever way of masking what the man really represents. They say that Dolan is part of a rollback on the reform vision of the Second Vatican Council, someone bent on propping up an authoritarian and ultra- clerical version of the Catholic Church. To those inclined to skepticism, Dolan's effervescence can seem like a Star Trek– esque "cloaking device" for a bare- knuckles strategy, from a hierarchy threatened by loss of power and control. In other words, they warn, beware the real Dolan beneath the kindly, good- humored façade.
Yet the more time one spends with Dolan, the more one begins to suspect that perhaps the façade is the real bishop —in other words, that his love for people and zest for friendship is what's truly fundamental about the man, not a PR device calculated to conceal some other agenda. That's not to say that Dolan can't, or won't, draw lines in the sand when he believes that core matters of Catholic identity are at stake. He's well aware that we live in a deeply secular world in the West, in which powerful pressures, both subtle and overt, seek to blur the counter- cultural message of Catholicism on many fronts. One key to Dolan's character, however, is that changing hearts, not knocking heads, is always his fi rst instinct.
The genesis of this book is not that Timothy Dolan is the most compelling Catholic story in America. There are 67 million Catholics in this country and just over 400 bishops, which means that without breaking a sweat, one could find plenty of American Catholics who are smarter, holier, even kinder and more loving. The point is rather that those qualities, which are very much part of the contemporary Catholic story, rarely break into public discussions about the Church. Given that they are also very much part of Dolan's own personality, the spotlight he attracts gives them a fighting chance to see the light of day.
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It's too soon for a conventional biography of Dolan, as most of his lasting contributions as a Church leader still lie in the future. The question I set out to answer is more forward- looking: What will the rise of Timothy Dolan mean for the Catholic Church? Where does he want to lead, and how will a Church that increasingly bears his imprint look, taste, smell, and feel?
Initially, my thought was to approach this project like an extended magazine profile, interviewing people who've known Dolan over the years, including both friends and foes (the latter are more diffi cult to find, but they're out there), reading his works, conducting some interviews with Dolan, and then offering my own analysis and forecasts. The more I thought about it, however, the more it seemed that not only has that been done before, but it's not the most informative approach. Inevitably, such a book would be more about me, how I see the state of the Church and Dolan's role in it, than it would be about the man himself. To understand where Dolan wants to take the Church, what's really necessary is to get inside his head and then let him speak for himself.
The solution I settled upon was to model this book after one of the more famous contributions to Catholic literature in the last quarter- century, a book called The Ratzinger Report (first published in Italian as Rapporto sulla fede in 1984). It was a conversation between a prominent Italian Catholic journalist,Vittorio Messori, and then- cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the man who is today Pope Benedict XVI. In many ways, it was the book that made Ratzinger a star. Prior to 1984, his role as the chief of the Vatican's doctrinal office made him a known quantity among Catholic insiders, but The Ratzinger Report introduced him to the wider world. Messori ran Ratzinger through the gauntlet of all the controversies swirling in the Catholic Church at the time, from women priests to liberation theology in Latin America, and Ratzinger delivered the trenchant, crystal clear defense of orthodoxy that has long been his trademark. The book fell upon the world like a thunderbolt, because it offered the clearest possible evidence that the winds in Rome had shifted —a period of reform and introspection had closed and a newly assertive and muscular defense of the faith had begun. The genius of The Ratzinger Report was that it allowed Ratzinger, in his own words, to draw a set of lines in the sand that in many ways framed Catholic debate for the next quarter- century.
By no means am I predicting that this book will resemble The Ratzinger Report in the sense of propelling its subject to the papacy, and Lord knows that Dolan cringes at even the hint of such a thought . . . though in the deeply improbable event that it should happen, I'd be thrilled to collect the royalties. Instead, I adopted the Messori model of setting the scene, framing the questions, and then allowing Dolan largely to speak for himself. This is really a book "with" Dolan, rather than a book "about" him, which is probably the best way to catch a glimpse of what his ascent augurs for the Church.
Dolan agreed to the format, and over the course of late 2009 and on different occasions in 2010 and 2011 he agreed to sit down for several hours of interviews spread over the course of two days. All together, we spent about thirty hours in formal on- the- record conversation, with several dozen more hours of me tagging along behind Dolan at various events, riding with him in the archbishop's minivan on the way to and from various appointments, and sitting around in his study in the residence at St. Patrick's Cathedral late into the night. I've taken those sprawling, unsystematic conversations and organized them into three basic categories: a brief look at Dolan's biography and its infl uence on who he is today; a review of all the hot- button debates about Catholicism, and how Dolan thinks about them; and a consideration of the spiritual essentials of Catholic life, including Dolan's reflections on how Catholicism can best offer a message of hope to the modern world.
There are a few revelations scattered throughout, such as Dolan's close friendship with a priest who died of AIDS in the mid- 1980s and the impact of that experience on his thinking about the importance of compassion in relating to people who fall short of the ideals of Catholic morality. Dolan also talks candidly about his relationship with two men he's replaced over the course of his career, who for different reasons are polarizing figures: Archbishop Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee and Cardinal Edward Egan of New York. At various points, Dolan reveals a few behind- the- scenes details of interactions over the years among the American bishops, or between American bishops and the Vatican, and he also talks about his encounters with U.S. president Barack Obama (whom he admires for both his civility and his political shrewdness). For the most part, however, our conversations were not about a search for "scoops," but rather an exploration of Dolan's mind.
Here's one other key difference between this book and The Ratzinger Report: While the essence of Messori's book may have been to draw lines in the sand, the primary thrust this time around is to try to explain what Catholicism is for rather than what it's against. In other words, the agenda here is to take a trip in Affirmative Orthodoxy with the Catholic leader in America who best seems to embody its spirit. At the end, one can agree or disagree with Dolan's outlook, but one may at least be better equipped to understand why thoughtful modern women and men might still believe there's something worth considering in the Catholic message.
A footnote is in order.
America's most famous Catholic priest, the acclaimed novelist and sociologist Father Andrew Greeley, once said that the original sin of clerical culture in the Church is envy. Anytime a member of the clerical club starts to make a name for himself, murmurs begin to make the rounds:"That guy's an exhibitionist. He's vain, he's a climber, he's just interested in grabbing headlines and making himself look good." While that may be a bit of a caricature, there's enough merit to Greeley's observation that I feel compelled to put the following disclaimer on the record: This book was not Tim Dolan's idea. I approached him, not the other way around. Truth be told, to the extent that Dolan ever agonizes about anything, he agonized about this. He later told me that he went to his friend and mentor, Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia, for advice.When Rigali asked what was holding him back, Dolan said he worried that people might think he's ambitious. Rigali's reply, according to Dolan, was that such a fear could itself be construed as ambitious, in the sense that Dolan would be turning down an opportunity to evangelize, to get the Church's message out, in order to protect his reputation. That apparently sealed the deal.
As Dolan himself notes in our interviews, he's basically beyond the point at which careerist ambitions would make much sense. He's already the archbishop of New York, so the only real higher rung left on the career ladder is the papacy —the longest of long shots, and in any event, the trash heaps of church history are littered with the carcasses of journalists who have tried to predict the next pope. A much safer forecast is that whatever the future may have in store for Dolan —whether he stays in New York until he dies, whether he's eventually called to Rome to work in a senior Vatican post, or something else entirely —he will be a force in the Catholic Church both nationally and internationally, and it's well worth trying to discern what that might mean.
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The conference tournament is divided into a North Region and South Region. The North Region is comprised of Catawba College, Mars Hill College and Wingate University. The South Region includes Florida Southern College, Rollins College and Saint Leo University.
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Study Design. Controlled prospective study.
Objective. To determine whether driving reaction time (DRT) is influenced by primary lumbar fusion.
Summary of Background Data. The effects of radiculopathy and nerve root blocks on DRT have been reported recently. To our knowledge, the relationship between lumbar fusion and DRT has not been previously studied although it is important for driving safety. The aim of the present study was to test the hypotheses that DRT after lumbar fusion is (1) altered after the operation, (2) influenced by pain, (3) influenced by the patient's driving skill, and (4) differs from the DRT of healthy controls.
Methods. Twenty-one consecutive patients (mean age, 53.5 years; SD 10.8) receiving primary lumbar fusion were tested for their DRT 1 day before surgery (preoperative), the day before discharge (postoperative) and 3 months after surgery (follow-up; FU). DRT was assessed using a custom-made driving simulator. The severity of back pain was determined on visual analogue scales separately for usual pain (VAS-U) and pain during testing (VAS-T). We also determined the patients' subjective driving frequency. Normative DRT data from 31 age-matched healthy controls were used for comparison.
Results. The preoperative DRT was 685 milliseconds (Md; IQR 246) and the postoperative DRT 728 milliseconds (Md; IQR 264), which was further reduced to 671 milliseconds (Md; IQR 202) after the FU period. Statistical significance was registered between postoperative and FU DRT (P = 0.007). Moderate to high correlations (0.537 < r < 0.680) were found between the VAS rating of back pain and DRT. Control subjects had a DRT of 487 milliseconds (Md; IQR 116), which differed significantly from the DRT of patients at all 3 time points of testing (P < 0.001).
Conclusion. It appears safe to continue driving after discharge from the hospital following lumbar fusion. DRT improved significantly during FU, indicating a positive effect of the intervention on driving skills. DRT correlates with the severity of back pain.
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Introduction: Many patients with low back pain (LBP) are treated in a similar manner as if they were a homogenous group. However, scientific evidence is available that pain is a complex perceptual experience influenced by a wide range of genetic, psychological, and activity-related factors. The leading question for clinical practice should be what works for whom.
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Skip to comments.60 Minutes does a hatchet job on the Roman Catholic Church
Posted on 03/04/2012 5:56:05 PM PST by TWohlford
An Irishman named Diarmuid Martin says the Catholic Church in Ireland has reached a breaking point, a crisis that he says results from the sexual abuse of children by priests and the cover-up by the Church. Martin has provided tens of thousands of pages of evidence against specific priests, and his words and actions carry extraordinary weight. That's because Diarmuid Martin is the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin. Bob Simon reports.
Is this payback for the Roman Catholic opposition to the Obama birth control mandates?
Curiouser and Curiouser.
Stand up to Obama, the self-declared God-King, and get crushed. The time for decision is approaching fast for people who love freedom.
Anyway, that was almost the last time I watched anything on SeeBS.
THE last time was in 2001 as I waited for Rather to tell his audience that Rep Gary Condit was a Democrat.
Maybe 60 Minutes has had some good shows these past 25 years. I wouldn't know.
Does it show a lack of faith to be politically active, on my knees praying for this county, and well holstered?
Diarmuid Martin is a raving liberal and now he's trying to shift the blame. He was a Vatican bureaucrat who was consecrated bishop of a titular see in 1999, and then made coadjutor of Dublin and finally archbishop in 2004, under JPII.
He clearly does not like this current Pope, who has actually replaced a large number of the Irish episcopate. Unfortunately, I think Martin has got a number of years before his retirement.
Why do people watch that show? Their target audience buys Metamucil, Centrum Silver and Polident Dentu-Grip.
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Haven't watched 60 minutes in years, but it is no surprise that they come to Obama's rescue and help him attack the Catholic Faith.
Yes we are under attack.
All of Christianity is under attack, the others just haven't realized it yet.
60 minutes.
democrat party.
will not investigate any other religion.
especially islam.
just another arm of the baraq army.
Shocking. Why watch it?
I had the same reaction. Curious timing. Plus it's about the 10th time 60 Minutes has hit the same story of priest sex abuse. A decade on, the media definitely sees more mileage to be gained from this story.
Target rich environment.
Yes, saw the previews, thought the same thing and shut it off. They are throwing everything at us to fractre the church. The Church can not back down no matter what they say. The people are the church, and Catholics had better choose the side of the church now! If not, he wins. Good-Evil. Simple as that.
- Christians
- Traditional sex roles and a patriarchal society
- Capitalism
- American exceptionalism
- Our founding fathers
- The role of US military might past and present
Organizations like 60 Minutes deal in feelings and cliche. They seldom really talk about anything new, and are in the business of regurgitating trash that has some appeal to a niche audience, liberal old people. They would never run a story with the some sort of spin regards:
- Homosexuality
- Muslims
- The failure of all socialized systems and structures in America
- The abuse of power, cost and even damage caused to people by green, regenerative, sustainable, organic, holistic, recyclable, biodegradable and other scams
- The cost of divorce and poor financial planning by a baby boomer generation
They know where their bread is buttered, that simple. News isn't to get informed, it's there to reaffirm ones preconceived beliefs and value system.
Can someone help me understand the liberal viewpoint on something?
The liberals are shocked, as all of us are, about child abuse by priests.
The liberals love to use this issue to denigrate the Church.
However, according to studies I have seen, a majority of these "child abuse" cases are cases in which priests abused boys and young men. Meaning that these priests committed or induced homosexual acts.
Now, we know that under politically correct ideology, homosexuality is special and celebrated. However, the MSM and liberals rarely indicate that the majority of these cases are men (priests) committing abuse against children and adolescents of the same sex.
Long story short, why is the liberal view to talk about the priest sex scandals as cases of child abuse in general terms, when so many are man/boy abuse? Are the liberals not shocked about man/boy abuse, or are they trying to protect the gay community from people jumping to conclusions that too many gay men are predatory?
I know this might seem like I'm inciting something here, but I really honestly want to know how liberals look at this. The liberals celebrate the gay community, but do not want to acknowledge that many of these priests are gay. Yet they do celebrate openly gay clergymen such as Eugene Robinson of the Episcopal Church.
the last time I watched anything on SeeBS.
Actually CBS is the best network on TV. NCIS, NCIS LA, CSI's, Blue Bloods, Survivor, The Amazing Race, POI, and so many more. I just don't watch their news organizations. Very easy to do.
Does it show a lack of faith to be politically active, on my knees praying for this county, and well holstered?
A thing you might enjoy.
Our priest asked us to pray today for the state of the nation (the UK, but it applies). On our feet, as men and women of pride, not on our knees as suplicants. As he said "We ask God in all humility, but we demand for our country in all righteousness."
Guess the bishop might have some words about that, but it made me proud.
Keep praying, working and keep the faith!
American "others" have always known it, that is why they always vote Republican, even in now blue California.
What is curious is the attack the messenger mentality. It was the offending priests and their enablers that produced the crisis. And the victims had a hatchet job (and worse) done on them too....by the very people who were charged with protecting them.
The Roman Catholic Church can claim no moral superiority here.
"Their target audience buys Metamucil, Centrum Silver and Polident Dentu-Grip."
Watch it,kiddo!
Who you calling "kiddo"? I'm 41 years old and I have arthritis in both knees and I get AARP mailers in my mailbox.
Just speculation, but its probably the communists behind the homos who are just using the homos to destabilize and destroy our society. Probably something along the lines of Adolf Hitler's use of the SA in the 1930s- its leadership was largely made up of homosexuals and when they were no longer useful Hitler purged them. The homos are useful to the left to accomplish their mission; after that, they will be sacrificed when convenient. Until then, the homos will be protected.
"Im 41 years old "
You're younger than my five kids,kiddo.
Right on cue from George Soros, the White Hut, Bill Ayers and all the others monstrosities we're up against. I say ignore them. They aren't worth the notice. They have ZERO crediblity.
It's becoming clear. The strategy is this. Radicalize the homosexuals, who are unbalanced and so make this easy. Reward them with recognition for becoming the frontline in the culture wars. Destroy the family and the church and erase all freedoms with the Radical Queers leading the charge. It's brilliant really. I see the bisexual Bill Ayers behind this, as well as George Soros. Why else would he hire David Crock? Sandra Slut Fluke, an obvious Lesbian, is part of this strategy. But now that we know what it is. We have to fight fire with fire. Call them out on every point. Fight back in every venue. This is WAR! The enemey must be not just defeated by annihilated.
Something around 40+ percent of all total abuse cases are committed by those known to be homosexual. This includes laypeople, not priests. Men and women.
If their proponderance in the general population is the same as in the general population at 2 percent of men, what does that mean for the incidence ratio?
It's also not uniform. Law, Weakland, Mahoney and Hunthausen saw about 80 percent of all the cases in the US. Hunthausen was so bad that Pope John Paul removed him in '86 and put Weurl in.
The numbers in the diocese of Seattle are just shocking, they had the most in all the US, something around 2x anywhere else, including Los Angeles.
Some 30 to 50% of seminarians are homosexuals so what else would be expected except predation on the flock?
Crushed? Hardly - I don't think you've heard the last of the Catholic Church...or other churches who clearly can see where this will lead if not reversed.
The offending priests are mostly homosexuals.If the Church is at fault, it is that they tolerated what the Church always condemned until the 1970s, and aimed, like the Boy Scouts, to weed out the nervous seminarians. Then came the crisis, when so many of the clergy turned away from the pope when he issued Humanae Vitae, the verdict against changing the Churchs policy toward contraceptions, which really was an indictment of the whole sexual revolution and a prediction of the devastating consequences if society accepted it. Many priests who thought that the Church owed them a wife and who had been assured for years that the Church was about to abandon the celibacy requirement, jumped ship. However, this was only a part of it. It was a revolt against Rome and the episcopate. With ranks repleted, the Church did what the Army did during the 70s. They accepted inferior men and went easy on the inferior men already in their ranks. Entire seminaries soon were Pink, and men who rejected advances or seemed otherwise too orthodox were weeded out. Much the same was going on outside.The liberals and their gay allies were much puffed up. The accession of John Paul II slowed but did not rule back the tide, at least quickly. The whirlwind was reaped when the priest scandal broke.
Which explains why some areas had much worse problems than others?
Look at the numbers yourself. You'll see what I'm saying.
....And why not? Sarc.
I don't know where you're getting that number from, but I suspect it's much lower now than it was from 1965-1985.
Of course it's hard to construct an infallible test to detect homosexual tendencies. But Rome has said over and over that males with strong/predominant homosexual tendencies, even if they are living chastely, are not suitable for priestly ordination.
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I Feel Bad About My Post
We do not exist in a vaccuum. Our actions and reactions influence the actions and reactions of those around us. Theirs do too. Many of the feelings and responses I have are predicated on the coping skills I learned as a child growing up in an alcoholic home. I feel a visceral fear when I'm around people who are drunk, particularly men. When I drank too, I found courage and felt invincible. I was able to ignore and shape shift. I began to apply this "secret weapon" in other circumstances and I found it worked there too. I kept broadening its application until I was drinking to deal with every single thing that came up in my life. Feelings of self-loathing: drink, job insecurity: drink, sadness: drink, disappointment: drink, tiredness: drink. I'm sure you know what I mean. And suddenly I was consumed. This is my part. I am responsible for the effects of my own evasion.
This self-forgiveness thing is tricky. It is tempting to drown in guilt of regrettable decisions. I know this is not the true path to forgiveness. Acceptance is key. Feeling worthy seems significant as well. It's a difficult place to seek when you are used to beating yourself up all the time. Anyway, I do realize it's essential and am on the path - just still looking for markers.
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It is alright to vent! Those of us who read your blog understand this. It isn't like you are on the pity pot, you are just getting your frustrations out.ReplyDelete
Something which has helped me with self forgiveness is; getting rid of shaming words.Whether I speak them out loud or in my head. I was raised with shame and used in like a sledgehammer against myself. With mindful practice I am able to catch myself when I do this, acknowledge how unhealthy it is for me and move on. Yes I did some really crappy things when drinking, I regret them but don't dwell on them or shame myself about them. I am different today, today I can correct attitudes which keep me sick if I am spiritually healthy. One day at a time I never have to go back to the old person who hurt others and himself.
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Hence, this blurb in the State House News this morning:
REPORT: REVENUE CHOICES COMPOUNDING BUDGET WOES | Beacon Hill leaders frequently point to the steep economic downturn nationally and globally as the reason for the state's deep budget problems, but a report out Wednesday morning says another factor has contributed to the red ink: revenue choices. The Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center report says the short-term causes of the state budget crisis are largely issues outside of the control of state policy makers, but concludes that permanent state tax cuts enacted in the late 1990s left Beacon Hill with structurally unbalanced budgets after the 2001 recession. "While the economy was growing the past five years, the state's fiscal condition was never truly strong," said MassBudget Executive Director Noah Berger. "After cutting taxes deeply in the late 1990s, the state suffered in the 2001 recession and then spent the subsequent years delaying needed investments in infrastructure and in people, and not being able to build the reserves needed to weather the next recession." The report found that from 1998 to 2008, net state spending declined modestly as a share of the economy, while state revenues declined sharply as a share of the economy. The report's authors estimate the fiscal 2010 budget gap at more than $3 billion and take a stab at explaining how state government went from posting surpluses ten years ago to today's fiscal shambles. Bipartisan proponents of the tax cuts targeted in the report billed those efforts as economic stimulators that would create jobs even as state officials built up one of the largest rainy day funds in the nation.
This is just another go-round in a time-honored dance among fiscal liberals. Having behaved badly for much of the past decade, they reach back over ten years to find the cause of the damage they have done. Surprise! Instead of wondering "how state government went from posting surpluses ten years ago to today's fiscal shambles," how about explaining how state government went from posting a BILLION DOLLAR surplus TWO years ago to today's fiscal shambles?
The answers are not difficult. With the exception of the 2000 recession, until this year the state budget grew every year between the Weld tax cuts (which, by the way, propelled us out of the Dukakis recession) and now. Both "revenues" and spending grew. Guess which grew faster? We also DID build up one of the largest rainy day funds in the nation - and our legislature dipped into it liberally to balance the budget, even when it was not "raining" by anyone's estimation. They repeatedly and casually overrode budget line item vetoes by Republican Governors intended to keep spending in check. They blithely ignored the fact that much of their spending relied upon one-time revenue items. They continued to underfund local services even as the state generated revenue surpluses year after year.
It is easy to look at a crushing credit card bill and blame one's employer for not paying enough. I can't buy a Ferrari and then turn to my law firm and demand that they increase my salary so that I can make the payments. This, essentially, is what this "study" does: it ignores a decade of excessive spending and says, "oh, if only we'd raised taxes higher, we could have afforded all of this great stuff we bought." Sadly, we residents of the Commonwealth don't even get to enjoy the state government equivalent of a Ferrari (and no, I cannot imagine what that would be). Our overspending gave us such baubles as wildly excessive pensions for workers at all levels of government, a transportation system drowning under layers of redundancy, patronage and waste, a legislature that spends freely to please everyone, and feels accountable to no one.
I'd rather a Ferrari.