“I was at the vespers when he was installed as bishop. And there’s a part where the bishop knocks on the door. Most do it timidly. Tap, tap. Not him — ‘Bang! Bang!’ It echoed through the cathedral and let everyone know that Timothy Dolan was there.”

Rev. Steven M. Avella, a history professor at Marquette,
on the man who will be Archbishop of New York.
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