When the Cardinal finishes being silent, he'll have some explaining to do.
He spoke to the New York Post on June 4 but didn't say much. He didn't deny making the payments, but he described the Times' claim that he had as "groundless", and took a shot at New York City's paper of record. Isn't his admission grounds enough for a reporter to go with the story?
Waiting out the scandal may prove difficult for Timothy Dolan with so many time-sensitive projects at hand: the USCCB's (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops) unofficial campaign for Romney, the lead-up to to "Fortnight for Freedom" -- a "two-week period of prayer, education and action in support of religious freedom, from June 21-July 4," and the ongoing war against "ObamaCare."
The allegations at hand (that Dolan paid off pedophile priests in Milwaukee) are so very serious that even Catholics who are disappointed in Dolan are reluctant to believe that the United States' top priest would have have paid a handful of pedophile priests to just go away --instead of turning them over to the Milwaukee District Attorney's Office.
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