Cardinal Timothy Dolan and around 200 others moved through the aisles of Old Navy in Manhattan, shopping for hundreds of strangers on Saturday as part of St. Nicholas Project Shopping Day, a program run by Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York.

Catholic Charities each year raises money, topping $70,000 this year, to spend in one day of serious shopping, where volunteers are given information about recipients to buy winter clothing for individuals and families.

That’s in addition to a program where people adopt families to shop for with their own resources during the holiday season.

“This is a great tradition. Near St. Nicholas Day, we get all the magnificent young people who are devoted to Catholic Charities and the Archdiocese of New York and they go shopping,” Cardinal Tim

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