(Vatican Radio) On Saturday March 7th, Pope Francis travels across Rome to mark fifty years since an historic event for the Catholic Church took place in the Roman Church of ‘Ognissanti’. It was the morning of the 7th of March 1965, the first Sunday in Lent of that year when in this very same Church Blessed Paul…
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(Vatican Radio) On Saturday March 7th, Pope Francis travels across Rome to mark fifty years since an historic event for the Catholic Church took place in the Roman Church of ‘Ognissanti’. It was the morning of the 7th of March 1965, the first Sunday in Lent of that year when in this very same Church Blessed Paul…
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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has sent a telegram expressing his sadness for the death of Cardinal Edward Egan, Archbishop Emeritus of New York, who died of cardiac arrest on Thursday at the age of 82. Please find below the full text of the Pope’s telegram addressed to Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York…
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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has sent a telegram expressing his sadness for the death of Cardinal Edward Egan, Archbishop Emeritus of New York, who died of cardiac arrest on Thursday at the age of 82. Please find below the full text of the Pope’s telegram addressed to Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York…
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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has sent a telegram expressing his sadness for the death of Cardinal Edward Egan, Archbishop Emeritus of New York, who died of cardiac arrest on Thursday at the age of 82.
Please find below the full text of the Pope’s telegram addressed to Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York and underneath a brief biography of the late Cardinal Egan:
“Having learned with sadness of the death of Cardinal Edward M. Egan, Archbishop Emeritus of New York, I offer heartfelt condolences to you and to the faithful of the Archdiocese. I join you in commending the late Cardinal’s noble soul to God, the Father of mercies, with gratitude for his years of episcopal ministry among Christ’s flock in Bridgeport and New York, his distinguished service to the Apostolic See, and his expert contribution to the revision of the Church’s law in the years following the Second Vatican Council. To all assembled in Saint Patrick’s Cathedral for the Mass of Christian Burial, and to all those who mourn Cardinal Egan in the sure hope of the Resurrection, I cordially impart my Apostolic Blessing as a pledge of consolation and peace in the Lord.”
FRANCIS PP.
Cardinal Egan was born on April 2, 1932, in Oak Park, Illinois and was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Chicago on December 15, 1957.
Cardinal Egan was consecrated a bishop in 1985. From 1985 – 1988, Cardinal Egan served as Auxiliary Bishop and Vicar for Education of the Archdiocese of New York. In 1988 he was appointed the Bishop of the Diocese of Bridgeport by Pope John Paul II. In the year 2000, he was appointed Archbishop of New York and made a cardinal in 2001. He retired in 2009.
Cardinal Egan’s death brings the number of cardinals in the College of Cardinals down to 226.
(from Vatican Radio)…