Father Barron sends another update to the Word on Fire Blog readers, recounting his recent experience at the Rector's Dinner at the North American College in Rome. There, he met up with New York Archbishop, Timothy Dolan, and esteemed actor from the movie Bella
, Eduardo Verastegui.
"Last Thursday night, I attended
the social event of the year for Americans in Rome: the Rector's dinner at the North American College. The evening is the major yearly fund-raiser for the NAC (as people affectionately call the college), and it attracts a whole bevy of people from different areas of the church's life. I ran into Fr. Hugh Cleary, the head of the Holy Cross Order, Joan Lewis, the inveterate Roman reporter, Fr. Tom Hurley, pastor of Old St. Patrick's church in Chicago, Archbishop Wuerl of Washington, Archbishop Burke of the Sacred Signatura, Cardinal Arinze (at whose table I sat), Cardinal Levada of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Kasper, whose books I avidly read in the seminary years ago, and many, many others. The honoree for the evening was the new Archbishop of New York and former rector of the NAC, Timothy Dolan..."