Overview
- Timothy Cardinal Dolan presided over his final Midnight Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Christmas Eve, drawing nearly 2,400 worshippers.
- New York City Mayor Eric Adams attended the Christmas Eve service at St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
- Dolan turned 75 this year, the church’s mandatory retirement age, concluding a 16-year tenure leading about 2.8 million Catholics since 2009.
- Pope Leo XIV appointed Bishop Ronald Hicks of Joliet as archbishop-designate, who will become the 14th bishop and 11th archbishop of New York.
- Hicks’ installation is set for Feb. 6, and he marked his own transition by celebrating a final Midnight Mass in Joliet that was streamed online.