At this moment I can only thank you for your love of the Church and Our Lord, and for the love which you show to this poor Successor of Saint Peter. I will try to do all that is possible to be a worthy successor of the great Apostle, who also was a man with faults and sins, but remained in the end the rock for the Church. And so I too, with all my spiritual poverty, can be for this time, by virtue of the Lord’s grace, the Successor of Peter. It is also your prayers and your love which give me the certainty that the Lord will help me in this my ministry. I am therefore deeply grateful for your love and for your prayers. And my answer to all that you have given to me in this moment and this visit is my blessing at the end of the Holy Mass. - BENEDICT XVI St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York April 19, 2008.