On Manhattan's Fifth Avenue one day 20 years ago, traffic came to a halt as thousands of New Yorkers, 2,000 priests and scores of bishops crowded into St. Patrick's Cathedral for the installation of the city's sixth Roman Catholic archbishop. Said the new prelate, whom they had come to honor: "I have read that this see is the richest see . . . The city of New York has length and breadth and height and depth of astonishing dimensions . . . [But] my viewpoint as a Catholic bishop is the apprehension of St....
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