{"id":21212,"date":"2013-03-03T17:50:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-03T22:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/?p=21212"},"modified":"2016-09-30T16:59:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T20:59:40","slug":"cardinal-dolan-the-life-of-the-church-goes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2013\/03\/cardinal-dolan-the-life-of-the-church-goes-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal Dolan: “The life of the church goes on”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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From the New York Times<\/a><\/strong>, some thoughts from another conclave cardinal:<\/p>\n

The cavernous nave of St. Peter\u2019s Basilica was nearly empty when Cardinal\u00a0Timothy M. Dolan<\/a>\u00a0arrived Sunday morning, shortly after dawn, a fading moon still hanging in the sky, and red streaks of sunlight illuminating the facade.<\/p>\n

Cardinal Dolan, the archbishop of New York, is a morning person \u2014 most days, he likes to get up at 5 and walk or exercise before his morning prayers \u2014 and on this last quiet day before the process of selecting a new pope begins Monday, he was raring to go \u2014 to celebrate a Mass, to start the day, to begin the conclave.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m eager to get started,\u201d he said. \u201cLet\u2019s go. Let\u2019s go, let\u2019s get home.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cardinal Dolan is one of 115 cardinal-electors\u00a0expected Monday morning<\/a>\u00a0at the\u00a0Vatican<\/a>\u2019s New Synod Hall, along with dozens of retired cardinals who are invited to participate in the conversations but who cannot vote in the ensuing conclave because they are over the age of 80. The cardinals plan to meet for several days in what they call \u201cgeneral congregation\u201d to get to know one another and to discuss issues facing the church globally; during their meetings, they will also pick a start date for the conclave.<\/p>\n

Cardinal Dolan has spent the last several days meeting with other church officials, doing interviews with reporters, and taking care of more ordinary tasks \u2014 on Saturday visiting a friend in the hospital and on Sunday taking New York\u2019s seminarians and priests in Rome to lunch. Cardinal Dolan has said, \u201cI never like to come to Rome without saying Mass at St. Peter\u2019s sometime during my stay,\u201d so on Sunday that is what he did. He employed\u00a0a small chapel<\/a>\u00a0in the basilica\u2019s grottoes, and invited about 20 people, including\u00a0the author George Weigel<\/a>\u00a0and members of the New York news media, to take part.\u00a0Anne Thompson<\/a>, an NBC News correspondent, was a reader during the liturgy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re all here to follow the extraordinary events with the departure of Benedict XVI, the election of a new successor of St. Peter,\u201d Cardinal Dolan said. However, he said, the celebration of Mass is more significant.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got to keep in mind \u2014 you know what, even more important than the pope is what we\u2019re doing right now,\u201d he said. \u201cThe life of the church goes on, and the life of the church centers around what we\u2019re doing right now.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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