N.Y. archbishop draws laughs at N.J. event with good-natured GWB jokes
MARCH 15, 2014, 12:59 PM LAST UPDATED: SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 2014, 12:59 PM
BY LESLIE BRODY
THE RECORD
Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Archbishop of New York, cracked New Jersey jokes at a Catholic men’s conference at Seton Hall University on Saturday, saying he “would have been here a little earlier but we got hung up on the George Washington Bridge.”
His good-natured reference to the lane-closure controversy confronting the Christie administration drew laughter and applause from the crowd of more than 2,000 who gathered in South Orange for the all-day conference. Dolan was the keynote speaker.
“What did you hold me up for?” Dolan asked. “I like the guy.”
Asked to elaborate in an interview later, Dolan said he didn’t like to comment on political views and had never met the governor, but he admired Christie’s “freshness, his openness, his moving around with people. That I find refreshing.”
He also declined to comment on recent news stories about Newark Archbishop John Myers’ plans for a $500,000 expansion of his Hunterdon County retreat, which some Catholics have called extravagant for a religious leader, especially at a time when Pope Francis has eschewed luxuries and preached the value of living modestly.
Dolan said he didn’t know details of the expansion and “I have enough headaches of my own to worry about.
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