How do they say this stuff with a straight face?

“How does he keep a straight face?” That’s the question I often think about the public relations staffers who work for Catholic officials. 

Take Joseph Zwilling, the PR man for New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan. Here’s what Zwilling released yesterday about his boss’ deposition in clergy sex crimes cases:

"Today Cardinal Dolan had the long-awaited opportunity to talk about his decision nine years ago in Milwaukee to publicize the names of priests who had abused children and how he responded to the tragedy of past clergy sexual abuse of minors. . .”

Long-awaited? Really?

Ever met anyone who really looked forward to being deposed by a hostile lawyer in a child sex case?

Dolan’s a chatty guy. He blogs a lot. He gives lots of interviews. Maybe we missed it, but we don’t recall even once hearing Dolan say “Geez, I’m just dying to sit in a room for hours, surrounded by lawyers, and face questions under oath about predator priests. . .”

Notice too that Zwilling mentions Dolan’s alleged desire to talk about “the good work and progress that took place to ensure the protection of children and pastoral outreach to victims" in Milwaukee and Dolan’s decision there “to publicize the names of priests who had abused children.”

That move, we’re convinced, was part of a shrewd strategy to forestall legislative reform that would have enabled more child sex victims to expose more predator priests in court.

But regardless, if publicizing the names of child molesting clerics in Milwaukee was “good work” and “progress,” why does Dolan refuse to do the same thing in New York? 

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  • June Annette
    commented 2013-02-22 09:56:05 -0600
    Question: “How do they say this stuff with a straight face?”

    Answer: Because they are disciples of the devil . . of whom Christ said. . .

    “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do, he was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.” (John 8:44)

    And don’t forget David, they have no reservations about employing “mental reservation”, a euphemism for LYING and an exclusive privilege extended to the RC hierarchy and their spokesmen!
  • Annette Kissell Nestler
    commented 2013-02-21 20:20:45 -0600
    Thanks, David, good write up. Guys like Dolan are slime that’s how he got to be Cardinal. There are a good number of reporters out their that are still brainwashed by a sick hierarchy.

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