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This week I am on a pilgrimage with the Knights and Ladies of the Holy Seplechure to various holy sites in Germany. However, I thought you might be interested in my column that appears in this week’s issue of Catholic New York .

When it comes to the Catholic Church, so goes the popular logic, if something happens to make you angry, always blame the Pope (or the Vatican), or the archbishop (or that darn archdiocese). Every problem in the Church, in this view, whether the decline in Sunday Mass attendance, the closing of a school or parish, or the shortage of vocations, is the fault of the Pope or the archbishop.

Last week, I was on the steps of St. Patrick’s Cathedral with Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, Executive Vice President of the New York Board of Rabbis , who has become a good friend this last year. The Rabbi and I were among other religious leaders in support of legislation proposed by Senator Jeff Klein to tighten the laws punishing those who would vandalize or deface a church, synagogue, or mosque.