you didn't work your ass off to get there just to save a couple of souls.

Shame on the pandering pontiff wannabe.

Instead he pandered. Shame on him. It is not the role of the Pope or the church to make people feel comfortable. It is to make them feel uncomfortable. It that means they give less money for a building project - so be it. I suspect though, that if the church is true to its Gospel mission, there will be plenty of money for worthy projects (not necessarily the same as Timothy Dolan's building project, though). $180 million would feed and house a lot of homeless people, after all......

He could have been Pope or might be still if the conservatives prevail at some point in the future, although one would think this little episode of back stabbing the current Pope might even give conservatives pause.

and low interest on catholic church property current and future.

"Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York authorized payments of as much as $20,000 to sexually abusive priests as an incentive for them to agree to dismissal from the priesthood when he was the archbishop of Milwaukee.

Questioned at the time about the news that one particularly notorious pedophile cleric had been given a “payoff” to leave the priesthood, Cardinal Dolan, then the archbishop, responded that such an inference was “false, preposterous and unjust.”

But a document unearthed during bankruptcy proceedings for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee and made public by victims’ advocates reveals that the archdiocese did make such payments to multiple accused priests to encourage them to seek dismissal, thereby allowing the church to remove them from the payroll."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/31/us/cardinal-authorized-payments-to-abusers.html?_r=0

And then...
"Files released by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee on Monday reveal that in 2007, Cardinal Timothy F. Dolan, then the archbishop there, requested permission from the Vatican to move nearly $57 million into a cemetery trust fund to protect the assets from victims of clergy sexual abuse who were demanding compensation.

Cardinal Dolan, now the archbishop of New York, has emphatically denied seeking to shield church funds as the archbishop of Milwaukee from 2002 to 2009. He reiterated in a statement Monday that these were “old and discredited attacks.”

However, the files contain a 2007 letter to the Vatican in which he explains that by transferring the assets, “I foresee an improved protection of these funds from any legal claim and liability.” The Vatican approved the request in five weeks, the files show.
http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/07/02/the-final-busting-of-cardinal-dolans-lies/