I've never been to New York, but I've been led to understand that there's some sort of a large cathedral there. St. Paul's? Anyway, apparently there isn't, or else the staff were all on vacation. Not to mention the Papal Nuncio in Washington, the Vatican, and 60 million American Catholics who all must have been unreachable when the New York Times published its obituary of the pope:
Even as his own voice faded away, his views on the sanctity of all human life echoed unambiguously among Catholics and Christian evangelicals in the United States on issues from abortion to the end of life.(Thank you, Powerline)need some quote from supporter
John Paul II's admirers were as passionate as his detractors, for whom his long illness served as a symbol for what they said was a decrepit, tradition-bound papacy in need of rejuvenation and a bolder connection with modern life.
Now I'm looking forward to the death of the New York Times, so I can use that line myself: "Need some quote from supporter."