We don’t do FBI checks on people who want to be buried,” Dolan, the archbishop of New York, said during his podcast Tuesday. The priests at St. Patrick’s made a decision at the beginning of the service not to celebrate a funeral Mass but to conduct a funeral service with no Mass instead. “In a way, it’s redundant,” Cardinal Dolan said Tuesday. Cardinal Dolan expressed frustration Tuesday with criticism by some Catholics of the cathedral staff and his archdiocese. Why in the world our people out there still believe what the secular press reports is beyond me,” Cardinal Dolan said.

Source: The Guardian February 22, 2024 18:10 UTC