Oh, You Crazy Old Grey Lady, You

So Dolan is now the Archbishop of NYC and God help us all. I don't know a lot about him, but I do know that there has been some CRAZY goings on in Milwaukee and Mike and I went to a LUNATIC Mass up there several years ago (this was before Mike was Catholic and I thought we'd lose him there for sure!). I guess actually Dolan replaced the loon that was Bishop there before? But anyway this article in the NYT cracks me up.

Some of the highlights of the awesome "journalism" going on:

He greeted an overflow crowd of more than 3,000, reading from a sheet of yellow legal paper as he recognized some of the prominent people in attendance, and giving a special mention to a contingent of New York City firefighters and their commissioner, Nicholas Scoppetta.

Really? Was it YELLOW legal paper? Not RED? Or plain WHITE? Interesting!

Also:

Afterward, some who attended the Mass said they were pleased with Archbishop Dolan, who previously led the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. “His focus is on the Catholic point of view,” said Vicki Miano, a registered nurse from the Bronx, “and if he keeps doing that he’s going to bring a lot of enthusiasm to the church.”

The Catholic point of view, Vicki? What view did you think he'd focus on? Maybe, I tell myself, she meant the catholic point of view, meaning 'of the people', but since it's capitalized, I doubt it.

Lastly:

He (Dolan) did not refer to it, but there is conflict between Catholic dogma and scientific conventions on several fronts, including the medical definition of brain death, the legal definition of the beginning of human life and the ethics of embryonic stem cell research.

This sentence is TERRIBLE. Catholic dogma does not set the LEGAL definition of human life. Scientific conventions don't care about the ETHICS of embryonic stem cell research. The hell? Does anyone still consider this trash to be a good newspaper?

(via Amy Wellborn)