"Patrick, Make Us Worthy of This Cathedral...."
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Despite it being his first St Patrick's Day clad in scarlet, Cardinal Tim Dolan gave New York's feast-day pulpit to a native son of the city -- the likewise freshly-elevated Edwin Cardinal O'Brien: a son of the Bronx ordained by Spellman, once priest-secretary to Cardinals O'Connor and Cooke and spokesman for the Gotham church, later rector of Dunwoodie and the Pontifical North American College, then a hometown auxiliary and the 15th archbishop of Baltimore, now the Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, only the second non-European in a thousand years to hold the prime post responsible for supporting the Catholic presence in the Holy Land.
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Along those lines, as a packed church looked on in the place that's been called his "wheelhouse," here's fullvid of the new cardinal's sterling, resonant, historically rich homecoming preach from The Great Gotham Pulpit:
As previously noted, despite his hometown ties, O'Brien will keep his American base in Baltimore, where he remains in the reins of the Premier See until the installation of his yet-unnamed successor.
PHOTOS: Reuters
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