Media ignore the big issues, focus on the trivial

This week, at a Mass celebrated by Cardinal Timothy Dolan at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City for Catholic high school seniors, I heard a student speak eloquently about faith being the greatest of all virtues. We then heard Cardinal Dolan in his homily talk about the persecution of innocent Christians in the Middle East by ISIS terrorists. I have been shocked by the near silence by world political leaders to the horrendous atrocities that have been taking place against Christians the pas

This week, at a Mass celebrated by Cardinal Timothy Dolan at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City for Catholic high school seniors, I heard a student speak eloquently about faith being the greatest of all virtues. We then heard Cardinal Dolan in his homily talk about the persecution of innocent Christians in the Middle East by ISIS terrorists. I have been shocked by the near silence by world political leaders to the horrendous atrocities that have been taking place against Christians the pas…