09/30/2008 Again , a mournful queue assembles

A police escort was scheduled to take McDonald's casket this morning from the funeral home to the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul, where the viewing will resume at 7:30 a.m. A Funeral Mass follows at noon, with burial in Resurrection Cemetery, Bensalem.

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Services Today For Slain Officer

A viewing for Officer Patrick McDonald will be held today, beginning at 7:30 a.m., at the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul, 18th Street and the Parkway.

A Funeral Mass will be said at noon at the cathedral with Cardinal Justin Rigali presiding. The Mass will be shown on a large closed-circuit television screen outside the cathedral.

Interment will be in Resurrection Cemetery in Bensalem. A funeral cortege will depart from the cathedral for the cemetery about 1:30 p.m. The route is I-676 to I-95 north to Bensalem. The procession will take Exit 95 at Street Road west, then north on Hulmeville Road to the cemetery. I-676 and I-95 will be closed while the procession passes. Bensalem police said Street Road from I-95 to Hulmeville Road, and Hulmeville Road to Gibson Road, will be closed from 1:30 to 5 p.m.