NEW YORK
The Journal News
Adrienne Sanders, asanders@lohud.com December 21, 2015
Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s message for Westchester County jail inmates and parishioners of Pearl River’s St. Margaret of Antioch was much the same on Monday.
“I love ’em. I’m with ’em all the way. I’m sorry for what they’re going through, especially this time of year,” he said.
The Archbishop of New York shared his message for the Rockland County parishioners shortly after presiding over a mass for roughly 150 inmates, clergy and visitors at the Westchester County Jail in Valhalla.
Dolan removed St. Margaret’s priest, Monsignor John O’Keefe, from his post last week pending an investigation of what he said was a “credible” 30-year-old child sex abuse charge. O’Keefe once led Archibishop Stepinac High School in White Plains and had served at St. Margaret’s since 2003.
Dolan, a charismatic and conversational speaker, brought words of hope and compassion to attendees, which included inmates, youthful offenders, visiting priests, jail chaplains and at least one busload of staffers from Westchester County Executive Robert Astorino’s office.
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