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From Conventions to Colbert, Cardinal Dolan Plays on Top Stages
posted on August 31, 2012The Washington Post‘s Michelle Boorstein profiles Cardinal Timothy Dolan, “the most visible and influential U.S. Catholic bishop in decades.” Dolan has agreed to give a benediction at the Democratic National Convention, just as he did for the Republican National Convention. He is known to be affable, outgoing, and extroverted, giving interviews to a myriad of outlets. “Whatever people think of Dolan’s style,” Boorstein writes, “the image of a player-bishop is hard to resist.”