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Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York joined other local religious leaders on Thursday in calling for a new effort to reduce the number of abortions in the city. The annual figure has averaged 90,000 in recent years, or about 40 percent of all pregnancies, twice the national rate. The archbishop, at a news conference in Manhattan, called the citywide statistics ''downright chilling.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

He will become the face of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. When public policy issues like abortion, same-sex marriage or health care cross paths with church doctrine, his will be the voice heard addressing Congressional committees. His name will be added to the speed-dial list of a platoon of church officials who work on Catholic concerns like liturgical translations and the plight of Christians in Baghdad. And all of those officials will want face time with him starting Thursday. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Italian newspapers were among the first -- back in March -- to float the rumor that New York's charismatic new archbishop, Timothy M. Dolan, was sure to be made a cardinal at the next big meeting of Roman Catholic prelates in Rome. The rumor sustained a robust life on its own, fed by Catholic news media and the eternal curiosity of many American Catholics about the nebulous world of Vatican power. Then on Wednesday, Pope Benedict XVI named 24 new cardinals to be installed on Nov. 20. The list included two Americans, but not Archbishop Dolan. Several news reports described the archbishop as having been passed over. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan and several other religious leaders in New York City are planning to meet regularly to try to reduce the kind of tensions that have surrounded plans for an Islamic center near ground zero. Leaders involved in preliminary discussions said the meetings would first address the conflict about the center, then broaden channels of communication among clergy members of various faiths who are committed to defusing similar flashpoints. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The board of trustees of a Roman Catholic Church on Staten Island, whose members include Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, has formally rejected a controversial proposal to sell a vacant convent to a Muslim organization that planned to use it as a mosque. The Islamic group, the Muslim American Society, said Thursday that it would seek a new location in the borough. The vote this week by the board of St. Margaret Mary Church, which was announced Thursday by the Archdiocese of New York, brings an end to a tense three-month standoff. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

At times during his first year as the 10th Roman Catholic archbishop of New York, Timothy M. Dolan seemed to be everywhere at once, like a presidential candidate with momentum in the early primaries. The crush of demands to see, hear and get slapped on the back by him kept the new archbishop in moving vehicles much of the time, on his way to national conferences, television appearances and far-flung churches where parishioners stood in line for hours to shake his hand and say the same thing, often in the same words: that he -- a bearish, warm-blooded, tough-talking Midwesterner -- was ''a breath of fresh air.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

To a Catholic boy like Tim Dolan, growing up in the heartland when Protestant neighbors still made casual jokes about the ''papists'' next door, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen rode into town in the 1950s on the new main street of the United States, the television set, like a true-blue American hero. ''He showed the broad American public that the truths of our faith were consonant with the highest values of the society: patriotism, God, family and the struggle against Communism,'' said that boy, now known as Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

He has a computer in the office but sometimes needs help with certain functions, like turning it on. He does not do e-mail. But with a little help from his staff, Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York has joined a small but growing cadre of American prelates with a blog of his own. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

With a self-assured voice and commanding presence, Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan effectively took charge as spiritual leader of 2.5 million Roman Catholic New Yorkers as he celebrated Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral on Sunday. His first homily adhered closely to Roman Catholic doctrine -- offering only indirect signs of the activist role he has hinted he will take as an advocate of the church's agenda in the public sphere -- calling on those in his flock to build their faith on ''trust in what cannot be seen,'' and not only ''on empirical, scientific evidence.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, a congenial cleric with a taste for baseball and fast food and a firm commitment to Roman Catholic orthodoxy, took his place Wednesday in the nation's most influential Catholic pulpit, as the 10th archbishop of New York. Archbishop Dolan, 59, who led the Archdiocese of Milwaukee for the past seven years, was officially inaugurated in a three-hour liturgy of installation at St. Patrick's Cathedral that put on full display all the magisterial ritual and pageantry in the arsenal of the Catholic Church. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The 20,000-pound bronze doors of the west portal of St. Patrick's Cathedral were made for many things: to impress with their workmanship and detail; to be hefty enough to support six nearly life-size statues built into their recesses; to keep out the roar of the city. They were not made for knocking on to announce arrivals. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In ceremonies marked by solemn Christian ritual and the stagecraft of the grand entrance, Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan was warmly welcomed Tuesday night as the new leader and high priest of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York. Seven weeks after Pope Benedict XVI selected him to succeed Cardinal Edward M. Egan, who is retiring at age 77, Archbishop Dolan, 59, a mirthful pastor and a theological conservative who has headed the Archdiocese of Milwaukee for the last seven years, rapped sharply on the massive bronze front doors of St. Patrick's Cathedral. In the intricately scripted rite, the doors were pulled open and he proceeded inside for a vespers ceremony -- the start of two days of ritual, prayer and music that will make him the most prominent Catholic prelate in the nation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]