New Yorkers React to Cardinal Dolan’s Retirement and Archbishop-designate Hicks’ Arrival

| 12/19/2025

By: Patrick Grady

Parishioners and visitors outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral wished Cardinal Dolan well and expressed hope for Archbishop-designate Ronald Hicks.

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Cardinal Dolan explains an old custom involving candles and holy water.

Father Francesco Negri, born in Ravenna, Italy, in 1623, was a natural history and geography buff and longed to discover the secrets of the North.

The bishop-chairmen were Bishop Edward J. Burns, Bishop Daniel E. Thomas, and Bishop A. Elias Zaidan.