The most exclusive club in the world is the Sacred College of Cardinals. Out of 1.1 billion Roman Catholics worldwide, only 193 men wear the red cardinal’s biretta. Of the twenty-two more who will be elevated to the cardinalate at the papal consistory in Rome in February, there are only two Americans. Both have roots in my hometown, New York.
Timothy Michael Dolan, the tenth Archbishop of New York, was no surprise. For what is, arguably, the most important see in the nation, the rank has historically gone with the territory.
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