Live from Birdland

From the nation's first cathedral -- Baltimore's Basilica of the Assumption -- here's an on-demand feed of this morning's Premier See presser at which Archbishop-elect William Lori was presented as the 16th head of the oldest Stateside diocese (fast forward to the 12-minute mark for event start):


As previously noted, the Balto installation of the US bishops' chief hand on religious liberty is scheduled for May 16th in the larger "New Cathedral" of Mary Our Queen, which was dedicated in 1959.

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