A most curious paragraph:

This past June 6th I was in the Sheraton New York Hotel on the dais for a dinner sponsored by the Building and Construction sector of the Cardinal’s Committee for Charity to raise funds for Archdiocesan schools that educate children who are physically or emotionally disabled. One of the more than 600 guests approached the dais toward the end of the dinner and began in jest to recite the responses of the altar server to the opening prayers of the traditional Latin Mass. On my right was one of the most prominent labor leaders in the nation and on my left one of the most successful construction company executives in New York. Together they joined in with the man who had approached the dais, reciting every word with remarkable accuracy. And when they were done, the man on my right launched into the longest of the altar server’s prayers in the Latin liturgy, the so-called “Suscipiat.” Both got even the most difficult pronunciations correct, and it was clear from the looks on their faces and the sound of their voices that what they had recited by heart had a very special place in the heart of each of them. Nor are they alone in this. Many feel a strong attachment to the Mass before the Council, and this we must understand and respect—from the heart.

The first man does it “in jest”, but then it all turns out to be from the heart. Is Cardinal Egan telling us that these huge business executives will be patrons of the full old rite parish which, God willing, will someday soon open in New York City? Without some further context, I don’t know how we can take these “jests” as an indication of the love for the traditional Latin Mass.

Egan’s whole response to “Summorum Pontificum” confirms the impression that I have from his policy (de facto if not de iure) of excluding the FSSP and ICKSP from New York: he is not a friend.