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March 30, 1987

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II-I'M FINALLY GOING TO BE A PASTOR

Nat Hentoff

PROFILE of Cardinal John J. O'Connor. Not long after he became Archbishop of N.Y. in Mar., 1984, he set off a controversy. At issue was whether he had …