The New Cardinal Takes On an Old Cathedral

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Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan likes to tell a story about a cleric at Christ Church in Manhattan — Episcopal, Presbyterian, Methodist; he’s not entirely certain — complaining good-naturedly about the enormous influence of St. Patrick’s Cathedral. It seems that a prospective donor, arriving at Pennsylvania Station, instructed a cabdriver to take him to Christ Church.

They pulled up in front of St. Pat’s.

“I told you to take me to Christ Church,” the benefactor said. “This isn’t Christ Church.”

The cabby replied: “Listen, buster, I don’t know anything about religion. All I know is, this is where Christ lives in New York.”

These are the sorts of people Cardinal Dolan will need. Although he has raised $45 million for the impending renovation of the cathedral from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, the cathedral trustees and individual donors, he’s still $132 million short of the total needed.

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