{"id":38965,"date":"2025-09-19T23:09:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T23:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=38965"},"modified":"2025-09-19T23:09:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T23:09:32","slug":"cardinal-dolan-hails-charlie-kirk-as-modern-day-saint-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=38965","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal Dolan hails Charlie Kirk as \u2018modern-day Saint Paul\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cardinal Timothy Dolan\u00a0on Friday hailed Charlie Kirk<\/a>\u00a0as\u00a0<\/a>a \u201cmodern-day Saint Paul\u201d \u2013 saying the slain conservative activist\u2019s \u201cgracious\u201d debating style \u201ccan teach us something.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dolan, one of the leading figures in the Catholic Church, said he didn\u2019t know who the Turning Point USA co-founder was when Kirk was fatally shot on a Utah college campus Sept. 10 \u2014 but then was quickly impressed as he started researching him.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe more I learned about him, I thought, \u2018This guy\u2019s a modern-day Saint Paul,\u2019 \u201d Dolan\u00a0told \u201cFox and Friends.<\/a>\u201d \u201cHe was a missionary, he\u2019s an evangelist, he\u2019s a hero.<\/p>\n

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Cardinal Dolan made the comments during an episode of \u201cFox and Friends\u201d on Friday.Fox News<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, enters the plaza at UC San Diego and talks with his supporters.SOPA Images\/LightRocket via Getty Images<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span>\u201cHe\u2019s one I think that knew what Jesus meant when he said the truth will set you free.\u201d<\/p>\n

New York\u2019s archbishop \u2014 and onetime candidate for the papacy \u2014 said that while Kirk was \u201cblunt\u201d and \u201cpretty direct,\u201d he treated his opponents \u201calways with respect\u201d when they were verbally sparring.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd not only was that a gracious, kind of virtuous thing to do, it\u2019s effective,\u201d Dolan said. \u201cBecause when your opponents sees this guy kind of respects me, we kind of disagree here, but he kind of enjoys me and is thanking me for being here, and he\u2019s telling me he appreciates the trust I have in him in sharing my view \u2014 I thought, \u2018This guy can teach us something.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

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Objects are placed near an image at a prayer vigil for Charlie Kirk \u2014 who was killed on September 10 \u2014 in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., September 18, 2025.REUTERS<\/p>\n

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Kirk\u2019s funeral is scheduled for Sept. 21 at State Farm Stadium in Arizona.Erika Kirk<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dolan\u2019s comments come more than a week after the horrific shooting at Utah Valley University claimed the life of the\u00a031-year-old married father<\/a>\u00a0of two and two days before his funeral is set to take place in an NFL stadium in Arizona.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>

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Lefty trade-school student Tyler Robinson was arrested and charged with the assassination and could face the death penalty if convicted of Kirk\u2019s murder.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    Cardinal Timothy Dolan\u00a0on Friday hailed Charlie Kirk\u00a0as\u00a0a \u201cmodern-day Saint Paul\u201d \u2013 saying the slain conservative activist\u2019s \u201cgracious\u201d debating style \u201ccan teach us something.\u201d Dolan, one of the leading … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38966,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38965\/revisions\/38966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}