The reporter is Gary Stern, who has a reputation for fairminded repoarting of religious issues.
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Dolan was typically colorful and emphatic, leaning toward a reporter as he tried to drive home his priorities and explain how he sees things. He talked often about the need to change perceptions of Catholic life in New York - that no one wants to be priests, that the school system is dying, that the growing Hispanic population is a problem of some sort.
He wants Catholics to take a fresh look at their church - its traditions, history and universality - so that they will see today's issues in a larger context.
He referred several times to Scripture to illustrate that "modern" challenges are often nothing new. ...
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