Archbishop Dolan, speaking from the pulpit of Saint Patrick's Cathedral on Palm Sunday, said the pope is "suffering some of the same unjust accusations, shouts of the mob and scourging at the pillar as did Jesus." Dolan continued that the Pope is a "man now being daily crowned with thorns by groundless innuendo."
These comments are frighteningly anti-semitic.
(Diarist's note added after 126 comments: the invocation of "the mob" is an unmistakeable reference to the supposed Jewish mob who, in the Christian anti-semitic gospels, calls for the killing of Jesus. Thus, Dolan is not just equating the Pope with Jesus, he is equating those who exposed the cover-up of the Catholic abuse scandals with the supposedly deicidal Jewish mob -- the same metaphors used to whip-up anti-Jewish pogroms for centuries.)