For unspecified day-to-day issues, a committee of three cardinals drawn by lot, as well as the cardinal designated the "camerlengo," in this case Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, are in charge.
ROME - Cardinal-designate Timothy M. Dolan is not shy about championing his adopted hometown.
If a cardinal-designate dies before the consistory at which the decree is formally announced, he is not a cardinal.
"As a kid, I just wanted to be a parish priest," the cardinal-designate said in an early morning news conference at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan.
As most of the soon-to-be-cardinals chatted among themselves, Cardinal-designate Dolan walked back through the crowd before the ceremony, greeting friends and guests who showered him with camera flashes and applause.
In this regard, the archbishop dwells under a shadow cast by his predecessor in New York, Cardinal Edward M. Egan, a man as dour as Cardinal-designate Dolan is high-spirited.
"He is known and respected as a fine Catholic educator," said Cardinal-designate Theodore McCarrick, archbishop of Washington, but he expressed disappointment that no Jesuit priest could be found to maintain the university's unbroken tradition.
IT is not a good time for the Roman Catholic Church in America, but Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, the cardinal-designate of New York, has made it his mission to remind people that there is more to the church than scandal.
ROME -- Cardinal-designate Timothy M. Dolan defended the virtues of his adopted hometown in an address before the pope and the College of Cardinals on Friday, calling New York a "very religious city," not the threatening global capital of secularism that some in the Vatican might envision.
Archbishop Dolan was among 22 cardinals-designate named by Pope Benedict XVI on Friday.
