{"id":89098,"date":"2026-01-04T23:25:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T23:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/89098\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T23:25:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T23:25:06","slug":"this-christmas-we-said-goodbye-to-retiring-timothy-cardinal-dolan-a-nyc-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/89098\/","title":{"rendered":"This Christmas we said goodbye to retiring Timothy Cardinal Dolan \u2014 a NYC treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New year, same ol\u2019 nonsense<\/p>\n<p>I AM BACK! And because of my enormous maximum wisdom, I tell you that 85% of Americans are confused about US foreign policy. Startling, especially when you consider the poll was taken at the State Department.<\/p>\n<p>With respect to my Catholic friends, I ask only understanding. I have one question: Why Christmas? The year\u2019s most joyful, blessed holiday. It\u2019s laughter, happiness, loving, feasting, drinking. It\u2019s shopping and wrapping and hugging and dressing the tree. It\u2019s joy to the world.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hark the herald angels sing. Not saying\u00a0Netanyahu\u00a0should send\u00a0Zelensky\u00a0a decent fitting suit. Forget designers now pushing boobs so high that noses overlap.<\/p>\n<p>So\u00a0this\u00a0is the exact time to hand over <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/18\/opinion\/my-friend-timothy-cardinal-dolan-was-a-gift-to-this-city\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cardinal\u00a0Timothy Dolan<\/a>? Whom NYC loves, adores, treasures? The only time Rome, between fittings for new robes, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/25\/us-news\/cardinal-dolan-holds-final-midnight-mass-at-st-patricks-cathedral-ahead-of-retirement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">only\u00a0time in an entire year to do this?<\/a> What happened to maybe Jan. 20, Feb. 16 or March 3?<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s a bigger mazel tov for NYC than this <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/18\/us-news\/pope-leo-appoints-illinois-bishop-ronald-hicks-to-replace-timothy-cardinal-dolan-at-ny-archdiocese\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">newbie from Chicago<\/a>? Make this change on a holy holiday \u2014 a bless all, love all, give thanks to all Christmas?<\/p>\n<p>Happy few minutes as the new year begins. Today, Tiny Tim would be stuck with major medical bills and Scrooge on Social Security. Crapdammy says goodness is just down the block. Yeah? Check his staffers. He\u2019s missing only\u00a0Harvey Weinstein,\u00a0Bob Menendez\u00a0and a pardon for\u00a0Diddy. Forget\u00a0Hunter. Can\u2019t get his cash register down the chimney \u2014 the\u00a0Biden\u00a0brothers may be stuck in it.<\/p>\n<p>Free parking spaces? Great idea. Watch them get filled with garbage bins roomy enough for\u00a0Bernie\u00a0the spitter and former bartender\u00a0AOC. Info is that they are not yet large enough for Crapdammy.<\/p>\n<p>Saddling up for a delicacy<\/p>\n<p>I need to tell you about Kazakhstan, a nice little winter resort an ice cube off Siberia. Saturday\u2019s NY Times had a full page on Kazakhstan. A few years ago, travel specialist\u00a0Geoffrey Weill\u00a0and I, searching new places to see, went there. Our banquet was prepared with local guests. Giant platter. Noodles. Atop the mountainous noodles: meat.\u00a0Horse! Cooked horse! Schlepping halfway around the world to stuff myself with Heigh-Ho-Silver was not what I was about to do. Geoffrey and I went heavy on noodles. It was right after Christmas. I carried a brand-new purse that had been shown one week before on Fifth Avenue. A local lady came by carrying the same purse. The Times story was headlined: \u201cKazakhstan sets sights on more oil riches.\u201d Yeah, right. And if you dine there, check for hooves.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet opinions and commentary from our columnists\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Curtain lifts on Frank &amp; Marilyn<\/p>\n<p>New audio book \u201cFrank &amp; Marilyn,\u201d about Sinatra and Monroe and their \u201cno cabaret tax, no minimum charge relationship at the Copacabana.\u201d The Copa\u2019s dinner in the \u201940s: $2.75. Romance and rumba began at 2 a.m. The comic: Peter Lind Hayes. \u201cNew personality \u2014 Desi Arnaz.\u201d The book, by\u00a0Edward Z.\u00a0Epstein, is about the love and sex \u2018twixt Sinatra and Monroe back when a shrimp cocktail cost less than their hotel room.<\/p>\n<p>COMPLAINT: People magazine did a fashion page picturing a black Saint Laurent gown with its entire cheeky bottom, the whole complete arse, with total closeup view of the backside, crack and all.\u00a0Zo\u00eb Kravitz\u00a0wore this to a Vanity Fair Oscar party last year. Her entire naked behind on view. Next year\u2019s version will be what? The ass will show her ass complete with its own toilet paper? Enough to make a bow?! Oy.<\/p>\n<p>Only in New York, kids, only in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New year, same ol\u2019 nonsense I AM BACK! 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