Cardinal Dolan: The Pope Has ‘Shattered the Caricature’ People Have of Catholic Church

Cardinal Dolan: The Pope Has ‘Shattered the Caricature’ People Have of Catholic Church (Mediaite)

In a look back at the biggest “game changers” of 2013, ABC’s This Week singled out Pope Francis for how he’s changed the image of the Catholic Church worldwide, stylistically more so than substantively. Cardinal Timothy Dolan praised the new Pontiff, saying he’s “shattered the caricature of the church” people have held for years, successfully doing what popes before him have not.

Dolan told George Stephanopoulos that the Catholic Church has “not had a good run of late,” and that’s why what Pope Francis is doing is so important.

“This pope has successfully, finally shattered the caricature of the church that his predecessors have tried hard to do. What’s that caricature? That the church of kind of mean and dour and always saying no, and always telling us what we can’t do, and always telling us why we should be excluded.”