{"id":1570,"date":"2007-07-12T07:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T07:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2007\/07\/charm-city-gets-a-new-charm-for-her-bracelet-a-new-yorker.html"},"modified":"2007-07-12T07:46:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-12T07:46:00","slug":"charm-city-gets-a-new-charm-for-her-bracelet-a-new-yorker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2007\/07\/charm-city-gets-a-new-charm-for-her-bracelet-a-new-yorker.html","title":{"rendered":"Charm City gets a new charm for her bracelet: a New Yorker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a Maryland boy, now living in New York, I found special significance in <a href=\"http:\/\/whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/balto-goes-gotham.html\">this news<\/a>:<i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_0DySLTT4PWo\/RpYZJN-lsTI\/AAAAAAAAAQQ\/Z1wN5bmwZmM\/s1600-h\/small_obrien.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_0DySLTT4PWo\/RpYZJN-lsTI\/AAAAAAAAAQQ\/Z1wN5bmwZmM\/s320\/small_obrien.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>This morning, Pope Benedict accepted the age-induced resignation of Cardinal William Keeler as archbishop of Baltimore, naming Archbishop Edwin O\u2019Brien of the Military Services USA as the fourteenth successor to John Carroll, the nation\u2019s founding bishop.<\/p>\n<p>The first New Yorker sent to American Catholicism\u2019s birthplace since James Roosevelt Bayley became its eighth archbishop in 1872, the Pope\u2019s appointment of O\u2019Brien, 68, is a marked signal that priestly formation is Priority #1 in the US\u2019 Premier See. The nation\u2019s only bishop to have led two major seminaries will now head the lone American see boasting two of its own: St Mary\u2019s in the city\u2019s Roland Park section, and Mount St Mary\u2019s in Emmitsburg. In testament to his experience as a formator, the Holy See tapped the archbishop to head the Apostolic Visitation of US seminaries during the 2005-6 academic year.<\/p>\n<p>A son of the Bronx, O\u2019Brien was ordained for the archdiocese of New York in 1965. After spending the first decade of his priesthood as an Army chaplain, then earning a Roman doctorate in moral theology, he returned to his hometown\u2019s \u201cPowerhouse,\u201d rising through the ranks as vice-chancellor, director of communications, and private secretary to Cardinals Terence Cooke and John O\u2019Connor before beginning his first stint as rector of St Joseph\u2019s, Dunwoodie in 1985. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/i>It&#8217;s intriguing to me that, once again, Benedict has tapped a man to be bishop who has a background in education (like the pontiff himself) and who, like the great John Cardinal O&#8217;Connor, also served as a military chaplain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a Maryland boy, now living in New York, I found special significance in this news: This morning, Pope Benedict accepted the age-induced resignation of Cardinal William Keeler as archbishop of Baltimore, naming Archbishop Edwin O\u2019Brien of the Military Services USA as the fourteenth successor to John Carroll, the nation\u2019s founding bishop. 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