My mother used to say, “There’s no sense in being Irish if you - TopicsExpress

My mother used to say, “There’s no sense in being Irish if you ain’t thick.” I guess I’m pretty Irish, because it never occurred to me that Cardinal Dolan—who once said of non-faithful Catholic politicians, “I am a pastor. I don’t want to embarrass you and you don’t want to embarrass me”—would, in the end, embarrass those faithful Catholics of his archdiocese and beyond who supported the parade committee’s staunch insistence that the event was no place for political posturing. crisismagazine/2014/catholic-leaders-abandon-faithful?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CrisisMagazine+%28Crisis+Magazine%29