Happy New Year! Welcome to the first Conversation with Cardinal Dolan of 2018. Today, Father Dave Dwyer and I catch up after Christmas and talk about a meaningful New Year’s resolution.

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After a funeral, it’s good manners to write a note of appreciation to those whose company, courtesy, and condolences were so consoling during the time of mourning.

Can this serve as one big thank you to all who “rose to the occasion” of our beloved Cardinal Edward Egan’s passing last Thursday?

This archdiocese and city he so loved were at their best!

From Father Douglas Crawford’s (his secretary) care at the moment of death, to the professional and personal attention of our renowned rescue responders, police officers, and emergency personnel at NYU-Langone Hospital;

To the reverent interest and reporting of the media, coordinated…

Yesterday’s beautiful feast of Corpus Christi (The Body and Blood of Christ) allows us to renew our commitment to making Sunday Mass the priority of our Catholic life, of every parish family.

One of the valuable lessons we’re learning from Making All Things New, our strategic pastoral planning initiative, is that people want a reverent, uplifting, joyful, welcoming, meaningful Sunday Mass.  They crave good lectors, inspirational (not overdone) music and singing, and a solid, succinct (i.e., short) sermon.  They want to participate – – ushers, offertory procession, lectors, choir, servers, trained Extraordinary Eucharistic ministers (where called for and allowed by…