Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York (United States), shared a story of his childhood, when the father of a priest who greatly influenced him told him the similarity between being a firefighter and being a priest.
“Last Sunday, at the party of Corpus ChristiI had the honor, before celebrating Sunday Mass in the Cathedral of San Patricio, to bless a fire truck of the magnificent Fire Department of New York, ”said the cardinal in a video published Wednesday on his social networks.
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“And that reminded me that when I was a child, the priest of my childhood was Father Jeremiah Callahan in Missouri. His dad was a captain in the fire department and Father Callahan shared with me that he always wanted to be one,” continued the New York Archbishop who participated in the conclave who chose Pope Leo XIV in May.
Callahan then “discerned that he was called to the priesthood and I’m glad he did, because he had a great impact on my life,” said American purple.
The father of the priest, concluded Dolan, “said: ‘Jerry, you will still save people from fire. The eternal fire of hell.’ Not bad, right? I have always thought that as a priest.
Cardinal Dolan has been Archbishop of New York since 2009 and continues in office at 75 years, which has already presented its resignation, as established by the Code of Canon Law. Now it is in the hands of Pope Leo XIV accept it or not.
Dolan was created Cardinal in 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI.
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.