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“More important, he (Cardinal John O’Connor) truly lived the old line‘Hate the sin, love the sinner.’ You can’t fully appreciate that line until you saw someone like the Cardinal, who really lived that life. Whatever his position on gay rights, he was more than active in New York’s AIDS hospices. He dedicated a major facility at one of the archdiocese’s hospitals to caring for AIDS patients, and he would visit, unannounced, to care for patients, washing them, changing their bedpans. He attended to thousands of patients over the years. In our book, I wrote that the difference between me and the Cardinal was that he was in the business of saving souls, while I was in the business of saving lives. On rereading the book recently, I had to apologize for that one line. He saved more lives than I ever could have.” –Ed Koch, former mayor of New York City, Newsweek, May 15, 2000
