{"id":286469,"date":"2018-05-08T15:48:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T19:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/?p=286469"},"modified":"2018-05-09T10:44:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T14:44:30","slug":"whats-the-church-doing-here-cardinal-dolans-remarks-at-the-met-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2018\/05\/whats-the-church-doing-here-cardinal-dolans-remarks-at-the-met-gala\/","title":{"rendered":"‘What’s the Church doing here?’: Cardinal Dolan’s remarks at the Met Gala\u2014UPDATED"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

A lot of ink<\/a> <\/strong>has been spilled about this controversial evening, but I was struck by what the Cardinal Archbishop of New York had to say at the press conference just beforehand.<\/p>\n

This comes from his blog:\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

What\u2019s the Church doing here?<\/p>\n

What is the Cardinal-Archbishop of New York doing here?<\/p>\n

Well, because the Church and \u201cthe Catholic imagination,\u201d are all about truth, goodness, and beauty\u2026<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why we have great schools\u2026 to teach the\u00a0truth<\/em>;<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why we love and serve the poor \u2013 to do\u00a0good<\/em>;<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why we\u2019re into art, poetry, music, liturgy, and, yes, even fashion\u2026 to thank God for\u00a0beauty;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

I guess that\u2019s why Steve and Christine Schwarzman, cherished friends so generous to our inner-city schools, Catholic Charities, and Saint Patrick\u2019s Cathedral, and I, are here\u2026 because of the true, the good, the beautiful.<\/p>\n

In the \u201cCatholic imagination,\u201d the True, the Good, and the Beautiful have a name: Jesus Christ, who revealed Himself as \u201cthe Way, the Truth, and the Life.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the \u201cCatholic imagination,\u201d the truth, goodness, and beauty of God is reflected all over\u2026 even in\u00a0fashion.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>The world is shot through with His glory.<\/p>\n

Thank you to the Metropolitan Museum of Art\u2019s Costume Institute for arranging this exhibition.\u00a0 Thanks, Dr. Weiss, Dr. Bolton, Ms. Wintour, and Steve and Christine, for your leadership.<\/p>\n

Thanks to the Vatican for its historic cooperation.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m honored to be here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There you have it.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong>\u00a0Cardinal Dolan had more to say about the event the morning after. From Crux:\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Speaking just hours after the last champagne cork was popped and cleanup crews hurried to prepare the museum to open to the public, Dolan described the night as an \u201cupbeat and inspirational evening\u2026and a boost for the Church.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the Met Costume Institute\u2019s curator, Andrew Bolton, and Met board member and Vogue<\/em> editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour, sought Dolan\u2019s blessing on the event, he said that while he thought the idea, on the whole, was \u201cvery promising,\u201d he was also nervous about potential irreverence and the possibility of the evening turning into an occasion for jabs at the Church.<\/p>\n

They assured him that they would deliver a respectful celebration of the Church\u2019s cultural influence, and on Tuesday he was happy to report those promises were kept, not just by the Met\u2019s planners and staffers, but by attendees as well.<\/p>\n

Dolan described the scene inside the Met where he greeted hundreds of the evening\u2019s starlets \u2013 all of whom seemed \u201cgenuinely happy to see me,\u201d he told Crux <\/em>\u2013 as a time in which he was overwhelmed with individuals approaching him to talk about their Catholic roots.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people were honest to say that they\u2019ve been less than faithful to the Church of their origin,\u201d said Dolan. \u201cBut an evening like this brings back lots of happy memories, and I thought, my, what a celebration of what we call the evangelization of culture.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the naysayers \u2013 and just one glimpse at social media will evidence that there are many, convinced the Church should have never partnered up with the Met for the occasion \u2013 Dolan is quick to counter outside attempts to caricature the event as something that it was not, and instead, to see it as an opportunity.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did not find the spirit of the evening to be offensive or blasphemous at all,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWas some of it edgy? Yes, but I never met any person that seemed to be snippy or snotty about the Church, or who intended anything to be offensive.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe could have had a lecture at the museum on the Catholic imagination and not too many people may have showed up, especially the crowd from last night. But when you do an evening like that, you get everybody,\u201d he told Crux.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/em>Boy, you talk about the public square \u2013 with some of the movers and shakers who were there \u2013 and they\u2019re reminded of positive memories of the Church and of devotions, prayers, traditions, and liturgies, as many of them told me they were. This could only be for the good of the Church.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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