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scripture from the heart of the church. Hi, I'm Dr. Scott Han, and I want to welcome you to the Road to Amayas, a

podcast from the St Paul Center, and today we have a special treat. A dear friend.

Father Gerald Murray, pastor at Holy Family Parish

in Manhattan across the street from the United Nations,

has joined me for a conversation based upon a brand new book that is coming out from our own publishing arm

and Mayis Road entitled calming the storm navigating the crises facing the Catholic Church and society.

Sounds like a really timely title to me.

Father Murray, I want to say thank you for joining us and also thank you for being here the last several days so that we're going to

have an audio version of this book, Almouth at the same time we're going to have

the written published form too. So tell me a little story about the book but let's begin by just

summarizing a little of your own background. Well Scott it's great to be here and it's a pleasure to meet your team. You've got a wonderful team here at St Paul and it's been great

working with Diane Montana who is a journalist I had known in Rome and does wonderful work there so it was a great team effort.

As regards my background so I am a priest of the Archdiocese of New York.

I was ordained in 1984 by Archbishop John O'Connor, then became

Cardinal the year after I was ordained. And as a priest of the Archdiocese, I've been stationed mostly at the beginning in Hispanic parishes. I speak Spanish, so...

Along with a few other languages.

Well, I do. I speak French and Italian and no Portuguese and in Latin but the Spanish was very useful I was in the

South Bronx and in northern Manhattan and then after being assigned for two years at St. Patrick's Cathedral as one of the assistants,

Cardinal O'Connor sent me to Rome to study Canon Law.

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