Brooklyn’s Bishop Brennan celebrates mass at St. Patrick’s
When the world-famous St. Patrick’s Day Parade took place in Manhattan on Thursday, The Most Rev. Robert J. Brennan, bishop of Brooklyn, was the main celebrant and homilist at the Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral prior to the parade.
Most people expected Cardinal Timothy Dolan to officiate the annual Mass, but the cardinal was unable to come due to the death of his mother.
Brennan traces his Irish ancestry to his maternal grandfather, who arrived in New York in 1927 from County Sligo.