Two years into his run as the Archbishop of the New York Archdiocese,
and just in time for St. Patrick's Day, Timothy Dolan was getting the 60 Minutes
treatment last weekend.
And, as is the way with CBS's veteran newscast,
details from Dolan's chat with Morely Safer were being dripped out
piecemeal.
Most notable so far?
Dolan thinks it is more likely the Mets will win the pennant than he'll become the first American Pope and he thinks the Catholic churches sex abuse scandal "needs to haunt" the institution for some time.
When Safer asked about the possibility of the Archbishop taking the
top spot in the church Dolan joked "You've been talking to my mom,"
before elaborating that "the people that say that, Morley, also think
the Mets are going to win the World Series. So...I wouldn't put too much
credibility in that one."
Asked if he was worried that the church's sex abuse scandal would never end he answered, surprisingly candidly, "In
some ways, I don't want it to be over, because...this was such a crisis
in the Catholic Church that in a way, we don't want to get over it too
easily. This needs to haunt us."