“Thanks for opening the door wide enough even for me to get in. Thanks for welcoming me so warmly as your new pastor! Thanks for already making me feel at home! Thanks for letting me into your lives! I am so glad you are here. And it sure beats sitting at home doing our last-minute tax returns, doesn’t it?”

— New York’s soon-to-be Archbishop, Timothy Dolan,
at the Solemn Vespers of April 14, 2009.