NEW YORK — Archbishop-designate Timothy Dolan on Tuesday urged New Yorkers to give up fear and embrace faith in the first of two services installing him as the city’s Roman Catholic leader — the most prominent post in the American church.
In his sermon, the former Milwaukee archbishop said Jesus does not force open people’s hearts, but waits for them to accept him. He built the homily around a central moment in the ceremony, when he knocked on the doors of St. Patrick’s Cathedral before entering.
“That’s the ultimate question,” Dolan said to the 1,500 well-wishers in the pews. “Will we open up in faith, hope and love to the God who gently knocks on the door of our being, asking Him to live with us? Or will fear, self-absorption, and darkness keep us locked up in ourselves?”
Dolan, 59, succeeds New York Cardinal Edward Egan, 77, who is retiring after nine years.
Ohio: Demjanjuk released
The son of John Demjanjuk says the accused Nazi death camp guard has been released from federal immigration custody. Six immigration officers removed the retired autoworker from his suburban Cleveland home in a wheelchair earlier Tuesday. Authorities then drove him to a federal building in downtown Cleveland. Demjanjuk’s return to Germany was halted when three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a stay until it could further consider a motion to reopen the U.S. case that ordered the deportation.
Texas: Accused is competent
A Texas judge has indicated that a man accused in the deaths of six people in a cross-country killing spree will stand trial after being found competent. The Austin American-Statesman reported Tuesday that State District Judge Brenda Kennedy will find Paul Devoe competent to face capital murder charges in the deaths of two people at a Texas home. Devoe is also accused of fatally shooting three other people in Texas and one in Pennsylvania.
Arizona: Love triangle killing
Police in Arizona say a high school student having an affair with his 48-year-old math teacher was stabbed to death after the woman’s 20-year-old boyfriend found them together in her bedroom. Officers in Chandler said Tuesday that Sixto Balbuena found his girlfriend naked and the 18-year-old student in his boxer shorts in the woman’s bedroom early Friday.
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