Cardinal Dolan says of retirement: ‘I’ll always keep working’
The archbishop of New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, speaks to EWTN News on Friday, April 25, 2025, at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome. / Credit: Screenshot/EWTN News CNA Staff, Dec 19, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).
Now that the Vatican has announced that Archbishop-designate Ronald Hicks will succeed Cardinal Timothy Dolan as archbishop of New York, what comes next for the cardinal?
“I’ll always keep working,” Dolan told Father Dave Dwyer, a Paulist priest, executive director of Busted Halo Ministries, and cohost of “Conversation with Cardinal Dolan,” during a discussion of his retirement plans earlier this year.
“For a priest, your life is your work,” he said, indicating that he hopes to continue preaching retreats, which he said he loves, and teaching.
“But I won’t have an appointment. I won’t have administrative duties. Yippee!” Dolan quipped.
The cardinal said he is looking forward to having “more choices, instead of waking up in the morning and being handed a schedule.”
“Should I read? Should I take a longer walk than usual? Should I spend a longer time in my prayer?” he mused.
Dolan said his brother bishops told him years ago to “make sure you have hobbies you can engage in on a day off,” and that advice has helped and will continue to help him in retirement.
The cardinal told Dwyer whatever he does, he will have to ask the permission of his successor. “I’ll be one of his priests,” Dolan said, laughing. “I will ask him: ‘Your Excellency, would it be OK if I…?”
In addition, in an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business this week Dolan revealed that he has received requests to teach at universities, to write a book, and to help with a documentary on the Catholic Church in the United States.
“I’m going to appreciate the chance to set my own schedule,” said Dolan, who has led the Archdiocese of New York since 2009.
Source: https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/268561/cardinal-dolan-says-of-retirement-ill-always-keep-working
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