NEW YORK
New York Post
By Gary Buiso
March 9, 2014
Some of the city’s most beloved and senior pastors will be forced to leave their flocks under two little-known rules being enforced by Timothy Cardinal Dolan, The Post has learned.
The first edict, taking effect this June, forces priests over age 80 who are administrating parishes to retire, leave their churches and find new digs.
“In order to take on the burdens of being a pastor, which is a very demanding job, we believe that a younger man should take that, and we should not be burdening our senior priests with this kind of responsibility,” New York Archdiocese spokesman Joseph Zwilling told The Post.
Pastors such as Monsignor Robert O’Connor, of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament on the Upper West Side, will have to hit the bricks.
“I’ve been here 29 years, which is a long time, and it becomes like a family,” O’Connor said. “In an ideal world, it would be great to be able to stay here.”
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