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We all enjoy reminiscing about the “good old days” when, so we ruminate, all was simpler, clearer, happier.
When I was a graduate student in Church history, our acclaimed professor, …
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By CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN |
7/18/18 12:10 AM
A blessed Fourth of July and summer!
I was home in St. Louis last weekend, a cherished, enjoyable family reunion like most of us celebrate these happy weeks of summer.
As I sat on the porch …
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By CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN |
7/4/18 01:10 AM
Last weekend’s newspapers, and reports on TV and radio, understandably had a lot on dads, since Sunday was Fathers’ Day.
Was it just me, though, or were there more stories than usual …
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By CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN |
6/21/18 01:00 PM
We all wonder about it at one time or another! What’s at the core of the universe? What is at the very foundation of existence? What power makes the world tick?
Those of us fortunate …
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CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN |
6/6/18 10:00 PM
Here’s an important word in the Catholic lexicon: holistic. When looking at the miracle, the work of art that we call the human person, we take in the whole: body, mind, and soul. This is …
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CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN |
5/23/18 10:00 PM
May...the month of Mary.
It’s appropriate, is it not? Creation is bursting with life. Grass, leaves, bushes, flowers—allergies!—all over the place.
Nature is as it should …
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CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN |
5/9/18 10:00 PM
You may remember the somber event that occurred in the days prior to Holy Week, when Firefighter Michael Davidson died in the line of duty battling a blaze in Harlem. The entire city grieved, and …
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CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN |
4/25/18 10:00 PM
Continued blessings this Easter season!
Today, I want to write about a few matters:
First, renewed congratulations to our new Catholics who entered the Church on Holy Saturday! …
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CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN |
4/11/18 10:00 PM
Spring seems to be fighting to arrive! Winter still seems to have us in its death grip.
Please God, by the time you read this, it will be warm, bright, and green. Spring will have conquered!
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CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN |
3/29/18 08:08 AM
The following is the homily Cardinal Dolan delivered at the Funeral Mass for Lt. Michael Davidson in St. Patrick’s Cathedral March 27.
This funeral Mass is about two …
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CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN |
3/28/18 10:00 PM
Is nothing less than a miracle...
Saturday night I offered Mass for the new parish of St. John Bosco in Port Chester. Sure, every Mass is a miracle, but that’s not the one I want to write …
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CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN |
3/14/18 10:00 PM
February brings a lot of anniversaries for me. The 6th was, in Jack Benny’s vocabulary, the 29th anniversary of my 39th birthday; the 18th of this usually dreary month was my 6th …
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CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN |
2/28/18 10:00 PM
I am writing this on Mardi Gras, the day before Ash Wednesday, so my mind is on Lent, our forty days of spiritual preparation for Holy Week and Easter.
Yet, I must also confess that my mind is …
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CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN |
2/14/18 10:00 PM
The end of January can be freezing weather-wise, but it annually brings two highlights of the year, which help warm my spirit. The first is the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., in which …
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CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN |
1/31/18 10:00 PM
Mass of the Vigil for Life
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
January 18, 2018
The following is the text of the homily to be delivered by Cardinal …
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CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN |
1/16/18 10:00 PM
Is still the first week of the first month of the New Year...so, a blessed 2018 to all!
I invite you to consider another first: the first day of every Week, Sunday, the Lord’s …
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CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN |
1/3/18 10:00 PM
This Christmas column, which originally was published in Catholic New York on Dec. 17, 2009, was Cardinal Dolan’s first as Archbishop of New York.
A lot of people had told me about …
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CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN |
12/20/17 10:00 PM
Advent! These four weeks of spiritual preparation for the grand feast of Christmas. (Actually, we only have three weeks-and-one day of Advent this year!)
Let’s try to better understand …
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CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN |
12/6/17 10:00 PM
St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta used to observe that the saddest person is the one without gratitude, the one who feels he/she has nothing for which to thank God or somebody else.
We Americans would …
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CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN |
11/22/17 10:00 PM
Last Sunday’s New York Marathon seemed even more festive than ever. That’s good! After the tragedy on Halloween afternoon, we needed it!
I’ve meditated before on the proposition …
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CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN |
11/8/17 10:00 PM
