New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo should be excommunicated from the Catholic Church for celebrating the passage of a bill removing abortion from the state's criminal code, Archbishop Timothy Cardinal Dolan said Monday.
"I get wheelbarrows of letters every day," Dolan told Fox News' "Fox and Friends." "We would give ammo to our enemies who say this is an internal Catholic disciplinary matter, that this is really not civil rights, this is really not biology, that Catholics don't have freedom when it comes to this."
New York's Democrat-led Senate and Assembly passed the Reproductive Health Act last Tuesday and Cuomo marked the event by ordering New York City landmarks to be lit up in pink that night, drawing fire from anti-abortion advocates.
"We have a governor that brags about it," said Dolan. "He uses his dissent from church teaching as applause lines. He takes Pope Francis out of context to draw an artificial cleavage between the bishops of New York and Holy Father of himself."
Dolan, meanwhile, said the act, which allows abortions up to the day of birth in cases of medical necessity, is "ghoulish, grisly and gruesome" and the fact that Cuomo is Catholic has nothing to do with that.
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