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In this homily for the Fourth Sunday of Advent, Cardinal Dolan holds up Saint Joseph as a model to teach us three lessons about our relationship with God.

Today the New York Post published an editorial on Judge Brian Cogan’s ruling on the Affordable Care Act. I would like to share it with you. Here is an excerpt: For a while it looked as though the president had got the best of the cardinal.

I recently came across two insightful opinion pieces in the New York Daily News this week, that I would like to share with you. On Sunday, Dr. George Mussalli, a former chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at St. Vincent’s Hospital- Manhattan, wrote an excellent op-ed on how Catholic healthcare actually does more to truly support  women.

This past weekend, I was pleased to help Catholic Charities with their annual St. Nicholas Project. I joined Executive Director Msgr. Kevin Sullivan , New York Catholic Charities’ Junior Board and hundreds of volunteers shop for clothing and blankets at Kmart, which will given to 2,500 individuals and over 650 families in need so that they may stay warm throughout the winter season.

In this week’s Catholic New York column , I wrote about Our Lady of Guadalupe and the importance of women in the Catholic Church. I thought you might want to read it. Here is an excerpt: If there is a “war on women,” those who defend the bond of marriage and the sanctity of the family (realizing that women are the ones usually left shattered and financially strapped by shattered marriages); those who believe that abortion is destructive of baby, mother, and father; those who hold that all God’s children, male and female, are made in God’s image, and thus deserve dignity and respect; those who sacrifice to run the world’s most effective projects of health care and education for women (led, for the most part, by generous, faithful women); and those thought idolatrous for placing a woman named Mary at the center of history, are hardly on the wrong side, but the right side, of such an alleged battle!

Cardinal Dolan interviews Joe Torre on being selected to this year’s Baseball Hall of Fame.

This week, Cardinal Dolan talks about Pope Francis being named TIME Mag’s “Person of the Year.”

This morning I was delighted to learn that His Holiness, Pope Francis was named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year.”  Let me share with you my statement that I released to the press: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 11, 2013 STATEMENT OF CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN ON POPE FRANCIS AS TIME “PERSON OF THE YEAR” The election of Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio as the successor of Saint Peter seemed to surprise many who had not yet heard of the Archbishop of Buenos Aires.

Today I learned that Nelson Mandela, former South African president and a hero to all, had passed away. Here is the statement that I released to the press: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 5, 2013 STATEMENT OF CARDINAL DOLAN ON THE PASSING OF NELSON MANDELA Nelson Mandela was a hero to the world.

I’ll blame my rush to get home to be with my Mom and family for Thanksgiving,  but I was remiss last week in not thanking the Daily News for publishing on their website my op-ed article on the protest of a talk that was to have been given – at their request – to high school parents by an archdiocesan priest about Courage , the Church’s ministry to those with same-sex attraction who are trying to lead virtuous lives.

Father James Martin, SJ has an excellent response to Bill Keller’s piece in yesterday’s New York Times about celibacy . Father Martin is right:  “Overall, the article is rife with lazy stereotypes and flat-out guessing.

It’s all about the kids , isn’t it? That dawned on me over the Thanksgiving weekend, when I was back in St. Louis with my family. Besides eating . . . which I obviously relished – – and sleeping, we spent most of our time just enjoying the kids!