Jackson Women’s Health Services was leaked in May. The two prelates noted the pace of attacks had stepped up since a draft version of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion in the case Dobbs v. Lori of Baltimore is chairman of the bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities. Cardinal Dolan chairs the Committee on Religious Liberty and Archbishop William E. They made the comments as committee chairs of the U.S. “O Sacred Heart of Jesus, touch our hearts and make them like your own.” “Each of us must choose the path of peace and open our hearts to the love that God has for his children,” said a joint statement June 13 by the two prelates. Lori of Baltimore pleaded for peace in light of recent attacks on pro-life pregnancy centers in the United States. Dolan of New York and Archbishop William E. He later oversaw an unpopular, thorny overhaul of New York church finances, eliminating a multimillion-dollar debt.WASHINGTON (CNS) - Cardinal Timothy M.
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The cardinal, born in Oak Park, Illinois, was an authority on church law and fluent in Latin - one of just a few experts tapped by Pope John Paul II to help with the herculean job of revising the Code of Canon Law for the global church, while deftly navigating the maze of Vatican politics. With the title of archbishop emeritus, Egan retired in 2009 after nine years of leading the archdiocese, which serves more than 2.6 million Catholics in about 400 parishes in parts of the city and its northern suburbs. Metal detectors were placed at the cathedral’s entrances.Īfter the Mass, the casket was lowered into a crypt below the altar, where archbishops and other notable Catholics have been entombed.Īt a viewing attended by thousands Monday and Tuesday, Egan lay in the vast stone cathedral where his rich, booming voice once rang out - his hands folded across his chest, a rosary interlaced in his fingers. International opera stars Renee Fleming and Matthew Polenzani sang Cesar Franck’s “Panis Angelicus” and Fleming sang Franz Schubert’s “Ave Maria.” Fleming was a friend who sang at Egan’s installation in 2000. Outside, police barriers held back crowds. Andrew Cuomo and four New York mayors: incumbent Bill De Blasio and former mayors Michael Bloomberg, Rudy Giuliani and David Dinkins. In the packed cathedral, amid construction scaffolding, solemn church music took over as several hundred Catholic clergy, including almost a dozen cardinals and archbishops and about 30 bishops, walked slowly down the center aisle toward Egan’s casket, draped in white and gold at the foot of the altar. Several of Egan’s relatives took part in the Mass. Tuesday’s music-filled service got off to a noisy start with drummers and bagpipers from New York City’s police and fire departments accompanying a funeral procession along the blocked-off streets around the cathedral in midtown Manhattan. In the days and weeks that followed, Egan performed many funerals. 11, 2001, when hijacked planes destroyed the World Trade Center and more than 2,700 died.
A Vatican theological force, he led the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York for almost a decade, including on Sept. “Now this Church thanks God for him and commends his noble, priestly soul to the everlasting mercy of Jesus,” Dolan said.Įgan died Thursday after a heart attack. He said Catholics from fellow cardinals to “God’s good people” could tell of “consolation given on and after 9/11, prayers offered, sick visited, prisoners encouraged, children taught, immigrants welcomed, and parishes strengthened.” Patrick’s Cathedral that Egan “was uncomfortable with eulogies” but Dolan went on to praise him nonetheless. NEW YORK-Cardinal Edward Egan was God’s servant and worked tirelessly for parishes, charities, health care and education, Cardinal Timothy Dolan said Tuesday at a funeral Mass for one of the most powerful prelates in the global Roman Catholic Church.ĭolan told the 2,500 people packing St.
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