New York contains more Irish Catholics than any other city in the world. Its five archbishops have been named Hughes, McCloskey, Corrigan, Farley, Hayes. Its handsome Gothic Cathedral on Fifth Avenue is dedicated to St. Patrick. Of the city's priests, policemen, bartenders, politicians, firemen, judges and streetcar conductors, a goodly number are named for the Scottish-born saint who brought Christianity to Ireland. Thus there was plenty of cause for pious feeling last week when the authentic spiritual successor of St. PatrickJoseph Cardinal MacRory, Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of All Irelandvisited New...
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