Cardinal Timothy Dolan

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January 19, 2017

by Ross Murray, Senior Director, GLAAD Media Institute

Praying against their fellow Americans: Inauguration prayers from anti-LGBTQ activists

The religious leaders featured in the inauguration ceremony represent the agenda of the incoming president, which is why LGBTQ people have reason to fear.

March 10, 2014

by Ross Murray, Senior Director, GLAAD Media Institute

Dolan and Donohue dance around Pope Francis' comments on civil unions

Pope Francis is messing with the narrative that anti-LGBT activists and leaders have been building. New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan and Bill Donohue are scrambling to explain how nothing has changed, when in fact, it has.

May 14, 2013

by Dani Heffernan, Senior Media Strategist at GLAAD

Snapshots of our Work

Wonder what we’re up to at GLAAD? Be sure to check out GLAAD Blog each week for updates about our latest work to build support for LGBT equality through news, entertainment and online media.

May 5, 2013

by Ross Murray, Senior Director, GLAAD Media Institute

Gay Catholics in NYC barred from entry to mass, threatened with arrest

A group of gay and allied Catholics gathered to worship together at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City with dirty hands in response to comments made by Cardinal Timothy Dolan. However, even as they were gathering, they were told by the police that they would be barred from entering the Cathedral unless they washed their hands.

April 24, 2013

by Ross Murray, Senior Director, GLAAD Media Institute

In Bizarre Move, Bishop Who Ousted Gay Catholic from Parish Rejects 18,000 Signatures, Sends Them Back

On April 11, Nicholas Coppola delivered over 18,000 signatures gathered through Faithful America to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre, asking that Nicholas be once again allowed to volunteer with his parish, after getting married to his husband. On April 23, Bishop William Murphy mailed them back, accompanied by one sentence: "FROM YOUR FAITHFUL ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP."

April 15, 2013

by Ross Murray, Senior Director, GLAAD Media Institute

Gay Man Rebuffed by Bishop Launches Petition for Dinner and Dialog with Roman Catholic Hierarchy

Nicholas Coppola, the Catholic man stripped of all volunteer duties after he married his husband, has launched a Change.org petition, inviting Cardinal Timothy Dolan to dinner and conversation about the relationship between the Roman Catholic hierarchy and LGBT people.

April 5, 2013

by Todd Clayton

Religion News Summary: Supreme Court, Rainbow House, and Nicholas Coppola

This week's religion news summary includes Bishop Timothy Dolan's statement about LGBT inclusion--along with stories of LGBT Catholics who have experienced exclusion. A rainbow house across from the Westboro Baptist Church caused a media stir, and the SCOTUS cases drew the support of faith leaders from across the country.

April 3, 2013

by Ross Murray, Senior Director, GLAAD Media Institute

Gay man removed from Catholic parish involvement after marriage

As Cardinal Dolan calls for a Roman Catholic Church open to LGBT people, one New York gay man finds himself removed from parish life.

March 31, 2013

by Ross Murray, Senior Director, GLAAD Media Institute