Ummmnnhhh...
The NYC situation has always been rather odd. Pre-Spellman the Cardinal damn near took NY banko. Spellman fixed that, but was less-than-rigorous in preaching and teaching sexual mores. Cooke was Cooke. Next guy was another fiscal inebriate (God rest his soul) Egan is a fiscal disciplinarian, but FIRST he's extremely ambitious.
Extremely ambitious.
I prefer to remember Cardinal O'Connor as a courageous leader who was well liked and respected by most of his flock.He had a great self-deprecating sense of humor.It was so good to hear Bill Donohue of the Catholic League speak so positively about Cardinal O'Connor last week on Raymond Arroyo's program on EWTN.