Next State Meeting

Saturday April 25^th 10 a.m.

Sacred Heart Church

120 Keating Drive

Winchester Va

Pesident’s Message

Ed Moran, State Newsletter Editor, lost a very close friend recently. To help him out I am doing the newsletter this quarter. Please pray for Ed and for the soul of Sarah Sullivan.

I trust everyone had an enjoyable St. Patrick’s season. I felt right at home with the Fr. Lynch Division at their St. Patrick’s Parade, cold drizzly Irish rain outside and warm Irish hospitality inside.

The last state meeting we focused on recruiting. I hope you where able to put those tools to use during the last few months. More materials are available from the National Organizer, Chris Norris, norrisaoh@aol.com. This meeting we will focus on fund raising. Fund raising is the key to keeping dues low and involvement high.

The mailing for the State Convention will be prepared after the state meeting. Please stick around and join in the fun. Bruce Denault and his committee have planned an exciting Convention. The Friday night ice breaker will be at the Marine Corps. Museum. The meetings and banquet will be held at St. William of York Church in Stafford. The Hampton Inn is less than a few miles from the church. The hotel rooms are only $85 a night and there is a free hot breakfast. There will be hospitality room at the hotel. We are trying to keep the cost down to encourage more participation. We are not committed to booking a set number of rooms to have a meeting space. If you life nearby you can save some money by not staying at the hotel. It’s been my experience that the most enjoyable and educational part of the convention happens outside of the meeting. I hope many of you will participate in the convention activities. Please get your registration in early. We do have to hold to the cut offs to allow the museum and caterer to plan for the events.

Our National President, Seamus Boyle, held a national conference call on April 14^th. Here are some the highlights from that call:

It has been discovered that the LAOH changed their national constitution back in 1996. The change involve removing statements that the LAOH was a unit of the AOH. This conflicts with the AOH National constitution which states the AOH National President serves as Chairmen of the Board of the LAOH. This change was approved by the National AOH president at that time. The statements that were removed have been in the LAOH constitution for over 100 years.

The implications of this are that the LAOH would no longer be considered part of the AOH and no longer eligible to the benefits of AOH members. Benefits including receiving the Hibernian Digest, eligible for Norte Dame scholarships, participation in Sean MacBride Award, John F Kennedy Medal, Project St Patrick and other joint ventures with the LAOH.

The National AOH President has sent out a letter to the national LAOH President and all state LAOH Presidents making them aware of the situation. No action is being taken at this time. It is hopeful that this will be corrected at the 2010 National Convention. The LAOH and AOH have always worked well together with common goals. We hope the LAOH will stay with our Order.

The other major controversy is the University of Notre Dame awarding Barack Obama an honorary degree and inviting him to speak at the 2009 commencement. In addition to this the University sponsored a series of events promoting gay lifestyles. All donations from the Order to the University have been stopped. The decision to permanently cancel involvement with the University will be decided at the 2010 National Convention.

Many states in the Midwest are having joint conventions. Meetings are held in separate rooms. Social functions are held jointly. This is helping to reduce the cost of conventions.

The Order is participating with Visa with a credit card. This provides income to National. Please consider this offer. Information will be sent out in June.

Several states are having very successful fund raising such as golf trips to Ireland and golf tournament.

The southeastern states, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina are experience very good success in starting new divisions and recruiting.

The National Editor, Keith Carney, encourages members to advertise in the Hibernian Digest. This helps to keep the cost down and allows members to support the businesses of brother members.

PRO-LIFE – Larry O’Brien

Because there has been considerable activity on the Pro-Life front, and because of reasonable limitations of space, some of the activities and occurrences will be covered here. For a broader spectrum of Pro-Life issues, go to the Pro-Life web site. In addition, be sure to Google.

Many women say they have been pressured into undergoing abortions they did not want, according to research by the Elliott Institute, a non-profit specializing in the effects of abortion on families, according to the Washington Times(1-18-09). Although the Pro-Choice, aka Pro-Abortion, movement has spread stories about back-alley abortions performed before Roe v Wade legalized abortion on demand in 1973, the opposite phenomenon has occurred throughout the country: In today’s culture, many teens are pressured to abort their children. Women are often threatened by male companions who take them to abortion facilities and are encouraged to abort their fetus by the staff at these clinics. Sixty-four percent of women say they are pressured to abort the fetus, according to a 2004 study published in the Medical Science Monitor. Stores abound, but the best approach today is for states to pass a bill such as “The Prevention of Coerced and Unsafe Abortions Act”, which would require health professionals to screen for coercion and to counsel against abortion in instances where there is high risk that the woman is not freely consenting or that she will suffer severe depression, and possibly even attempt suicide, as a result of the procedure. When pro-abortion people argue to keep abortion safe, legal and rare, retort that although abortion is legal, it is neither safe nor rare. If people are truly pro-choice, why won’t they support a fair and balanced approach?

Shortly after our Pro-Life March, many of you in our e-mail network received an e-mail from our Pro-Life Committee in which it detailed background about The Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA), which is a radical bill that creates a “fundamental right” to abortion throughout the nine months of pregnancy. No governmental body at any level would be able to “deny or interfere with this right, or to discriminate against the exercise of this right in regulation or provision. For a legal analysis of FOCA by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishop’s Office of General Counsel, go to www.nchla.org. A summary fact sheet can be found at this site. If you did not receive a copy of the Jan. e-mail, which among other items, enumerated the daunting and draconian downsides to this bill, call or e-mail me. Above all, call, e-mail, write, or all of the above, your U.S. senator and congressman.

Could Barack Obama be Saul waiting to become a Paul? Nellie Gray, founder and permit holder for the March for Life, thinks that he is not yet completely comfortable rejecting the Pro-Life position, according to the Arlington Catholic Herald (March 5-11, 2009). This writer, however, believes otherwise, to the extent that he appears to be, unfortunately, the most pro-abortion president; yet we’re still in the first 100 days of his term in office. What’s even more tragic is that the Catholic vote, unquestionably, pushed him over the top last November. It gets worse: A majority of Catholics voted for him, which may have paved the way for the infamous and nefarious Freedom of Information Act and the Mexico City Policy. The Mexico City Policy, incidentally, allows the federal government to assist in funding abortions in foreign countries. Vice President Joe Biden, who received Communion at Holy Trinity Church in Georgetown, noted during the campaign his schooling and teachings in the Faith, and that he believed the fetus to be human at the moment of conception; yet he stated he believed in abortion! Mark Twain once said it is better to be thought a fool and keep your mouth shut than to open it and confirm it. The list of the current administration’s underlings who happen to be Catholic and support the pro-abortion line grows. Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is the current nominee for HHS secretary (Dept. of Health and Human Services), and was told by her Archbishop not to receive Communion until she changes her position on abortion. She was advised by Archbishop Joseph Naumann that she should not present herself for Communion until she publically repudiates her support for abortion. It gets even more shameful. George Tiller, “the late-term abortionist who has the grisly work of killing viable fetuses (The Wash. Times, “Sebelius Poses Dilemma to Wuerl,” Julia Duin), yet the coup de grace of Sebelius: having a celebrated get-together for Tiller. The law usually gets its man and he was eventually slammed with 19 counts for illegal late-term abortions. Julia Duin noted that despite the above history and the position of the Reverend Naumann, Archbishop Donald Wuerl and his predecessor Cardinal Theodore McCarrick have both refused to deny Communion to such Catholics. Fortunately, however, there are some men of the cloth who perform their duties the way they should. Scranton Bishop Joseph Martino ordered all priests to give the sacrament to those “whose worthiness to receive Holy Communion is known publically to the Church. This is assumed to have been aimed at Sen. Bob Casey, who the bishop publically rebuked the same day for doing little to “oppose abortion and other moral evils”. He severely criticized Casey for his vote on the Mexico City policy. Fortunately the Vatican informally vetoed the appointment of Caroline Kennedy and other Roman Catholics who have supported President Obama. To date, however, President Obama seems to be bent on dismantling new conscience protections for health care professionals. He threatens the admissions into medical schools and careers of pro-lifers who refuse involvement with abortion and contraception issues. If you are repulsed by President Obama’s diabolical leanings and menace, don’t just talk about it, or read this and shake your head -- write to your elected officials and let them know how you feel. Otherwise, they may misinterpret your silence as agreement with the president’s abhorrent pro-abortion position. Without resistance, their voting will be as predictable as a Swiss watch.

Incidentally, if you haven’t done so yet, please be sure to thank Brother Moran for all he’s done and is doing with this newsletter. We haven’t seen anything like it previously and there is no question that it reflects hard and diligent work that is par excellence.

Catholic Action Report – Jack Devaney

The following letter was published in a recent copy of The Arlington Catholic Herald.

I believe the content to be of interest to all Hibernians.

Dear Editor.

Michael lad, you have a grand way with words. But I think your arithmetic is a bit weak.

The largest religious denomination in the United States is Catholics who do not profess their faith.

Fifty eight percent of Catholics voted against basic principles of the Catholic Church in the past election. This ratio holds for the professionals as well as the rank and file. All health care personnel will be affected by proposed government mandated laws. The health care moral dilemma will be heavily guided by the “needs” of the patients and the new law.

The need for unified action by the church was before the election. That action came piecemeal or not at all. All policy is established by budget. All current diocesan budgets are quite limited in what is devoted to the political - moral life of the church. In other words, where is the advertizing budget?

The Bishops of the United States need to come out with a unified statement defining the limits the church will tolerate from Catholic politicians. This should be read in every church on a given Sunday, if any serious inroads are to be made in saving our religion. This will have to be supplemented with a heavy public relations campaign to reach those with only the name - Catholic. This means spending money.

A church under siege that fights is a church with a populace who will stand with her.

Sincerely,

John F. Devaney, Jr.

BUY IRISH REPORT – HUGH O’BRIEN

Have you purchased anything with an Irish connection lately? Or has the economic distress in which we find ourselves curtailed your spending? While grocery shopping recently at a large supermarket, I came across a small section marked “Irish” which was squeezed next to the Mexican and Kosher shelves. It included products made in Ireland e.g., Barry’s Breakfast Tea and McCann’s Oatmeal. They were priced comparably to their American competitors so in a modest gesture to help the wounded Celtic Tiger, I bought a few items. I also lately sampled a beverage with an Irish flavor, McSteven’s “Luck O’ the Irish Green Hot Chocolate. The verdant hue (a blend of blue and yellow coloring) was admittedly a bit unusual but didn’t detract from the chocolate taste. If interested in this drink (even though the green month of March has passed), you can contact the Washington State company at www.mcstevens.com. I invite you to try the above food items or others with an Irish link. You may be pleasantly surprised and help stimulate the micro-economies of both Ireland and the USA!

On the more serious side, if you are thinking of traveling to the Old Sod in the coming months, a perusal of air fares will show you the bargain rates that are being offered. Aerlingus and other carriers have lower prices that will be appealing to your pocketbook. An article in the March-April issue of Ireland of the Welcomes describes the efforts being made by Failte Ireland and the Irish Tourist Board to encourage tourism and provide a continued high level of hospitality to visitors both in the Republic and in the North.

In this vein about travel to the Land of St. Patrick, I want to mention that the General Meagher Division in Fredericksburg is having a raffle for a Trip for Two to Ireland. The winner gets two round-trip airline tickets to Dublin, a rental car, and vouchers for six nights at Bed and Breakfasts. If the winner declines the trip, the alternate prize is $2500. Tickets cost $10.00 each or 3 for $25.00. The point of contact for tickets is Bill Halpin at e-mail address: SISConsulting@comcast.net. The limitation on the number of tickets sold is 1,000. All proceeds will be used for division charities and projects. This could be your chance to visit the Emerald Isle for free!

CONVENTION CHAIRMAN REPORT – Bruce Denault

Convention 17-19 July 2009

The Hampton Inn near St William of York offering $85 per night and a breakfast, estimated needs are 75 rooms. Contract has been signed.

Registration for the convention will start at 3:00 PM and end at 5:00 PM on Friday, July 17^th, at the hotel. Registration will continue at Tun Tavern, Marine Corps Museum from 5:00-7:00 PM. “Goody Bags” will be given to registarees at the Hotel; those registering at Tun Tavern will receive their bag Saturday morning at St William of York.

Bus transportation to the Marine Corps Museum for the ice breaker has been scrubbed.

Bob Sullivan has made liaison with the National Museum of the Marine Corps (NMMC). They will cater the icebreaker at Tun Tavern on the second deck. The menu includes shrimp Chinese wontons, Thai chicken nachos, and a fruit and cheese tray. Their will also be an open bar. .

We have all the facilities we need and the full cooperation of St William of York Parish. We can host the convention for both the AOH and LAOH as well as support a banquet with entertainment, an installation of Officers and the Major Degrees.

We will have a registration desk in the entrance to St William of York School starting at 8:00AM Saturday. The LAOH will meet in the Brent Room which is down the hall on the left starting at 8:30 AM; the AOH will meet in the gym starting at 9:00AM. Both meeting are anticipated to end by 1:00PM.

Mass will be held at St William of York at 5:00PM followed by the installation of Officers for both AOH and LAOH in the gym.

The banquet and evening entertainment will be held in the Community Center consisting of a cash bar at 6:30 and the dinner at 7:30 -9:00. Bob Ghormley is working with TJ’s to cater the banquet. Cost is $55 per meal and consists of choice of entrée of top round of beef or breast of chicken, a vegetable, potato or rice and dessert. Entertainment will be provided by Dominic Preston. The Irish Embassy may provide a guest speaker. If not, we may ask a National Officer to speak.

Our convention concludes with the Brian Boru Degree Team conducting the Major Degrees in the St William of York gym at 11:00 AM, Sunday morning.

WEBMASTER – Mike Creegan
webmaster@aohvirginia.org

Well, the magical month of March has come and gone. Parades have been marched, pints drank, and Gaelic Masses celebrated. It was a great time for those of us of Irish heritage and those that wish they were. Well, now we look forward to our State Convention in July. Visit your State Board’s website at www.aohvirginia.org frequently to keep up with announcements and news bulletins.

I would remind Division & County Presidents and our State Officers of our Prayer line. The purpose of the “Prayer” line is to list the names of our injured, sick or deceased Brothers or family members that can benefit from our prayers. The names will scroll across the banner followed by the Our Father and the Hail Mary. To minimize fraudulent requests, names should be submitted by Division, County or State officers.

Something else I would like to remind our Brother about is the link to “Businesses to Patronize”. This link will take you to a page listing businesses owned or operate by fellow Hibernians or friends of the Order. While we should always try to support our brother Hibernians and friends when we can, it is particularly important during the current economic situation. I would encourage all to visit the page an avail yourself of the services these businesses provide.

Do you Twitter? Well, more and more organizations, as well as individuals, are joining twitter.com. You can register (it’s free) with twitter.com and then select the organizations and/or people you want to “follow”. Then, on future visits to twitter.com you will find bulletins, news items or just comments posted by each of those organizations/people listed in one place. Now, the Virginia State Board twitters and you can view our notices by registering with twitter.com and selecting to “follow” aohvirginia. To eliminate the casual, non-Hibernian viewer, your request to “follow” aohvirginia will be viewed and verified by the webmaster. For those of you located within the Diocese of Arlington, you can follow news items from the diocese by selecting to “follow” arlingtonchurch.

Below are the statistics for our website covering the first three months of 2009. Our website continues to receive quite a few visits. You’ll notice the build up in traffic as we approached March. In particular, take note of the numbers for the month of March. Numerous websites in the U.S. and Ireland have established links to our website. This generates more hits, and more hits mean more people are viewing the notices posted to the website.

Month	Unique visitors	Number of visits	Pages	Hits	Bandwidth
Jan 2009	561	858	5267	7920	273.94 MB
Feb 2009	629	956	5687	10411	247.15 MB
Mar 2009	838	1266	5936	10592	316.92 MB

Father John Munley – Jack Rogers

Winchester

The division organized an inspirational concert by Mark Forrest, the world famous Irish tenor, on St. Patrick's eve in the chapel of St. Bridget's in the Field in Berryville  Va. Close to 350 were in attendance.

 Four days later we held our annual St. Patrick's day dinner, with about 160 people partaking Irish step dancers and Dr Tim O’Donnell, Pres. of Chrisendom College, provided the entertainment An auction by the LAOH raised about $800.00 for the stained glass window in St. James Church in Charles Town West Va.

 On Mar. 30th we laid to rest Dan O'Boyle, one of our founding members was laid to rest in Sacred Heart cemetery.

 We are now gearing up for the Week End in the Park portion of Winchester 's annual Apple Blossom  Festival (May 1-3). We provide crowd control and ticket taking. It's our biggest fund raiser.

Msgr. Bradican – Joe McGowan

Annandale

Since our last quarterly meeting the most major event we had was our St. Patrick's Day Dinner at St. Michael's in Annandale on March 14th. It was a great success in that Joe and Ed Kennedy made their excellent corned beef and cabbage once again. 

  Our major fundraisers for the year are the St. Patrick's Day Dinner and selling tickets for the five car raffle from All Saints Church in Mannassas.

General Thomas Meagher – Bruce Denault

Fredericksburg

As a fundraiser, the Coffee and Doughnut Breakfasts at St William of York have been successful. The revenue from this has allowed us to stabilize our finances. Our last breakfast will be this April.

This quarter has been an extremely busy for us. We had St. Patrick’s Day activities, including a parade at the Blue and Gray Brewery on March 14^th. We also organized and sponsored the St. William of York St. Patrick’s Day celebration with dinner, Celtic dancing and music that evening. (Because of inclement weather the parade in Fredericksburg on the 15^th was cancelled.).

We used St Patrick’s Day also to kick off our “Trip for Two to Ireland” raffle. We are selling only 1000 tickets ($10 each or 3 for $25). Drawing will be at the Blue and Gray Brewery on September 26^th.

Jeff Fitzpatrick is spearheading our efforts to sponsor a Rose of Tralee for the DC competition this summer.

We welcomed aboard William Phillips, John Mahoney, and James Hanson, who joined us as our newest members. We also have three more applications pending.

We continue to plan for the State Convention for July 2009.

Hampton Inn near St William of York offering $85 per night and a breakfast, estimated needs are 75 rooms.

Bob Sullivan has made liaison with the National Museum of the Marine Corps (NMMC). They will cater the icebreaker. The menu is finalized.

St William of York Parish will provide all the facilities for the convention, banquet and Tower Degree.

Bob Ghormley is working with TJ’s to cater the banquet. Entertainment will be provided by Dominic Preston. The Irish Embassy may provide a guest speaker.

Jeff Fitzpatrick has been elected as our Financial Secretary.

Upcoming Events

State Convention July 17-19

Goals

1. Continue to promote and support Catholic education in the Fredericksburg area.

2. Continue our efforts to recruit Catholic men of Irish descent, hopefully increasing our division size by 20%

3. Continue to be an ever increasing presence in our community, promoting Irish awareness and education.

4. Work with other Catholic organization h the Fredericksburg area to promote and support the need for Catholic High School facilities in central Virginia.

Necrology:

N/A

John Cardinal O'Connor – John Flynn

Williamsburg

Greetings from the John Cardinal O'Connor Div. Williamsburg, James City County,VA . We have approximately 49 members and meet the first Tuesday of the month. Meetings are not held in the summer months or in January. We meet at Maurizios restaurant Williamsburg Va. in the evening at 6:30 PM.   Our St. Patrick's Day party was hugely successful, attended by 128 people and raised funds for Charity. The annual picnic will be held at the Kings Mill pavilion at 5:00 PM Williamsburg Va.  Plans are also underway for a fund raiser on October 10th 2009 at the Williamsburg Public Library, where we will have the use of the auditorium that seats 270 people. A Christmas Party at a place and date to be determined rounds out our yearly calendar of events. Unfortunately I shall not be able to attend your State meeting on April 25th but wish you and those attending our best regards.    John F. Flynn pres.

Historian – Bruce Denault

Biographies of our namesakes continue with the biography of John Cardinal O’Connor

New York's Cardinal O'Connor

On May 3, John Cardinal O’Connor, the Archbishop of New York, died at his official residence behind St. Patrick's Cathedral. But his legacy lives on...his words, his concern for the sanctity of life, efforts on behalf of the poor, the sick and the homeless, his defense of the unborn, his concern for his priests and his support for New York's Catholic schools.

"Every priest would like to be remembered as a priest and all that it conveys, rather than as a public figure with all that it conveys," Cardinal O’Connor once reflected when asked how he would like to be remembered. He then added, "I regularly go down to the crypt under St. Patrick’s Cathedral and I look at the tombs of my predecessors. Right in the center is the next marble block with no inscription. That’s reserved for me. And all that’s important when I move into the crypt is that I have served New York as a very good priest." And a very good priest he was.

The Cardinal will be remembered as a strong and faithful shepherd. At a time when Catholics in America were increasingly inclined to take a "cafeteria stand on matters of faith and morals", Cardinal O'Connor continued to proclaim Church teaching on birth control, abortion and homosexuality.

The one teaching of the Church that defined his ministry was the sanctity of life…at any age and at any stage. He is best known for his stand against abortion. To him, it was simple: Abortion is murder. It is a sin. But he did more than just talk about it. He was committed to the right to life and showed his concern by wearing on the lapel of his black clerical suit a tiny red rose with its stem spelling out "l-i-f-e". He participated at the annual Right to Life March held in Washington, DC, and formed a religious community, the Sisters of Life who are dedicated to protecting the sacredness of all human life beginning with the infant in the womb to those vulnerable to the threat of euthanasia. In addition, he repeated an offer many times to any woman in need: "go to him for help rather than abort her child". The Archdiocese of New York and Catholic charities responded by providing hundreds of women with medical assistance, housing, adoption and legal services, as well as, the Cardinal himself counseling women in difficult situations.

Cardinal O’Connor, the fourth of five children, was born in a row house in a blue-collar Philadelphia neighborhood on January 15, 1920. His father, Thomas O’Connor, was his hero and his mother, Mary Gomble O’Connor, experienced both a sudden blindness and recovery that impacted Cardinal O’Connor with a sensitivity to disabled people for the rest of his life.

He attended public schools until he was a junior in high school. Under the Christian Brothers of West Catholic High, he was inspired to take up a religious life. He entered St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia at age 16 and was ordained nine years later on December 15, 1945, a month before his 26th birthday. Cardinal O'Connor and his 21 classmates promised to return for a reunion every year on that date, and the Cardinal kept that promise except for his years in Korea and Vietnam, and last year because he was ill.

After ordination, he worked as a diocesan priest for seven years. His days and nights were full with teaching at a Catholic high school, night school for adults, hosting a weekly, Catholic, radio news program, and volunteering in two psychiatric hospital wards.

In 1953, Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York, who was also responsible for providing the Church’s chaplains to the U.S. Armed Forces, pleaded for more chaplains. Cardinal O’Connor responded and entered the Navy. When he retired 27 years later, he had risen to Rear Admiral and Chief of Chaplains of the US Navy. Later as an Archbishop and member of the Episcopal Commission that spent two years drafting the American bishops' 1983 pastoral letter on war and peace, he influenced the bishops in America to tone down criticism of U.S. nuclear policies.

After leaving the Navy in 1979, he was made an Auxiliary Bishop and assigned to the Military Vicarate under Cardinal Terence Cooke of New York. In May 1983 he was appointed Bishop of Scranton, Pennsylvania. He held that post less than a year before being chosen to succeed Cardinal Cooke - who died of cancer - as the Archbishop of New York. He was elevated to Cardinal in May 1985.

On his 75th birthday, as required by Church law, he submitted his resignation, but Pope John Paul II asked him to stay on and he did for another five years. On January 16, 2000, the Sunday Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral celebrated the Cardinal’s birthday, one day after he turned 80. As he entered the Cathedral, Cardinal O’Connor received a standing ovation from the 3,000 people gathered. During his remarks, the Cardinal said his Sundays in the Cathedral had been among his happiest times.

During his years in the Archdiocese of New York, Cardinal O’Connor was active in many areas – from ministering to both the rich and down trodden, to preaching it was important to live your faith in both politics and even on the baseball field. He would donate his Social Security benefits to a black scholarship fund and give blood to the Red Cross and ask others to "give" too. In the quiet of the night, he was known to visit AIDS patients at an archdiocesan hospital and could be found listening to them, cleaning their sores and changing their bedpans.

Perhaps one person who touched his life most deeply was Mother Teresa. He once stated, "Mother Teresa offered me one of the most precious gifts that I have received by telling me, ‘Only if we share the light of Almighty God do our lives become truly meaningful.’ " It is interesting to note that the last public appearance of Cardinal O’Connor was at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on March 5, 2000, when he spoke about Mother Teresa.

The Funeral Mass for John Cardinal O’Connor was held on Monday, May 8, 2000, and he was buried in the crypt beneath the main altar of the Cathedral at St. Patrick’s in New York.