“The drift from God – and sometimes it’s more than a drift; it’s a gallop – is, in my mind, the basic reason for all the woes that we see today – whether it be crime, whether it be family tension, you name it,” Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York said in an interview with Newsmax.

“When society and culture taunt us to believe that we are gods, we are in charge of everything, everything revolves around us, we deserve constant entitlements and worship – well, then you’re going to shatter a window at Saks and take everything. You’re going to shoot somebody who might get in your way. You’re going to abort a baby that is inconvenient. You’re going to end the life of grandma who’s proved to be ‘a burden.’”