{"id":32105,"date":"2015-03-05T03:15:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T07:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=32105"},"modified":"2015-03-06T00:10:43","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T04:10:43","slug":"edward-michael-egan-dies-at-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/03\/edward-michael-egan-dies-at-82\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Michael Egan, dies at 82"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Edward-Michael-Egan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-32106 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Edward-Michael-Egan-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"Edward Michael Egan\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Edward-Michael-Egan-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Edward-Michael-Egan.jpg 697w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/a>A short time ago I was notified of the sudden death of Edward Michael Cardinal Egan, emeritus archbishop of New York.<\/p>\n<p>Following lunch, he succumbed from a heart attack and was pronounced dead at NYU Medical Center. He would have been 83 on April 2.<\/p>\n<p>Many will say he was brought to NY because his financial abilities. Many will criticize his warmth. He was a kind man who gave others a chance and he looked after the needy. The Holy Father asked him to shepherd the Archdiocese because he had the ability to lead men and women to the Lord.<\/p>\n<p>In 1957 he was ordained priest, in 1985 bishop, by 1988 he was installed as the bishop of\u00a0Bridgeport and then translated to New York as the\u00a09th archbishop on\u00a019 June 2000. His service to the Church included being given the title of Cardinal on\u00a021 Feb 2001. He retired on\u00a023 February 2009.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve known +EME since 1997 and have always enjoyed his friendship and counsel.<\/p>\n<p>Eternal rest grant unto him O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May his soul and all the souls of the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace. Amen.<\/p>\n<p>Requiescat in pace et in amore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short time ago I was notified of the sudden death of Edward Michael Cardinal Egan, emeritus archbishop of New York. Following lunch, he succumbed from a heart attack and was pronounced dead at NYU Medical Center. He would have been 83 on April 2. Many will say he was brought to NY because his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/03\/edward-michael-egan-dies-at-82\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Edward Michael Egan, dies at 82<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[32101,2028],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32105"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32110,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32105\/revisions\/32110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}