Cardinal Dolan sees US as 'mission territory'

Photo ~ Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan speaks at the 2012 spring general assembly of the U.S. bishops' conference in Atlanta, Ga. Cardinal Dolan sees US as 'mission territory' New York City, N.Y., Jul 17,…More
Photo ~ Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan speaks at the 2012 spring general assembly of the U.S. bishops' conference in Atlanta, Ga.
Cardinal Dolan sees US as 'mission territory'
New York City, N.Y., Jul 17, 2012 / 04:41 pm (CNA).- The U.S. and other Western nations are “mission territory” for the Catholic Church in modern times, Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York stressed in a July 17 online posting.
“I was raised – as were most of you – to think of the missions as 'way far away' – and, to be sure, we can never forget our sacred duty to the foreign missions,” the New York archbishop wrote on his “Gospel in the Digital Age” blog.
“Maybe, we have gotten way too smug. We have taken our Catholic faith for granted,” the New York archbishop suggested.
The entire Church, he said, can no longer “coast on the former fame, clout, buildings, numbers, size, money, and accomplishments of the past.”
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