St. Paul? Really?

Not surprising, given it's Timothy Dolan. Still, reprehensible:

Cardinal Timothy Dolan on Charlie Kirk: "This guy is a modern day St Paul. He was a missionary, he's an evangelist, he's a hero. He's one I think that knows what Jesus meant when he said 'the truth will set you free.'"

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— Lucas Sanders 💙🗳️🌊💪🌈🚺🟧 (@LucasSa56947288) September 20, 2025

 So, let's play a common and popular game. If Charlie Kirk were a modern day St. Paul, it should be difficult to determine which individual is responsible for a particular quote, offered in no particular order. In each case, I've left one or more words blank because otherwise, it would be obvious in that instance that the words were spoken in the 1st century A.D. or the first century A.D.

1) "Well, (blank) is "an ideological, unintelligent, yet confident fanatic (who) feels entitled to this position."

2) ".... prowling (blank) go around for fun to target (blank) people, that's a fact. It's happening more and more."

3) "If I'm dealing with somebody (in a particular line of work) who's a moronic (blank) woman, I wonder is she there because of her excellence or is she there because of...."

4) "The (blank) party hates this country. They wanna see it collapse."

5) "(Blank) has now become the jive speaking spokesperson of (blank)."

6) (Blank) is a bumbling dementia filled Alzheimer's corrupt tyrant who should honestly be put in prison and/or given the death penalty for his crimes against (blank).

7) "We're taking our country back from these cockroaches."

8) "And Jewish (blank) have a lot of explaining to do, a lot of decoupling to do, because Jewish donors have been the number one funding mechanism of radical open borders, (blank), quasi-Marxist policy, cultural institutions, and non- profits."

(Credit to Steve M./No More Mister Nice Blog and to Ta-Nehisi Coates for the links to these quotations.)

The words omitted were:

1) Ketanji Brown Jackson; 2) blacks, whites; 3) customer service, black; 4) American Democrat; 5) Kamala Harris, equity; 6) Joe Biden, America 8) donors; neo-liberal.

O.K. O.K., you probably suspected that Mr. Kirk was the author of all those quotations but if he were the modern St. Paul, it would not have been such an easy call.  The eighth statement is interesting because "radical open borders" had its parallel in Old and New Testament times, and Luke wrote in Acts "all the believers were together and had everything in common." Radical capitalists, they weren't.

The point isn't that Charlie Kirk was wrong about everything, though resenting Jews, hating blacks, and supporting the execution of an American President for having disagreeable policies normally would not be an impressive character reference. It is more so the deification of Charlie Kirk in death, an effort which normally would not be something a Roman Catholic prelate would be partial to. 

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