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Cardinal Dolan to give Notre Dame commencement address

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Cardinal Timothy Dolan arrives for a meeting Wednesday at the Vatican.

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Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, considered a longshot to succeed Pope Benedict XVI, will be the principal commencement speaker at the University of Notre Dame in May. As head of the nation's largest Roman Catholic archdiocese and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Dolan is one of the best-known religious figures in the United States.