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Showing posts with label Cardinal Timothy Dolan. Show all posts
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Thursday, March 17, 2016

Timothy Cardinal Dolan: Honoring Saint Patrick


Why do the Irish so enjoy parades?  True, everybody loves a parade, and we’re blessed to have an abundance of them here in New York City, but nothing seems to rival the St. Patrick’s Day Parade.  This year alone I was invited to eleven of them just in the archdiocese alone, and another dozen from around the country!

No doubt about it; while everybody loves a parade, nobody else comes close to the Irish in the diaspora – – people of Irish background whose ancestors emigrated from Ireland to other countries, especially here – – in marching on or near March 17.

I ask once again, why?  Well, I’ve got a theory, which I’m happy to say is shared by observers of Irish ways far more erudite that I am.