Archbishop Thomas A. Donnellan is in St. Joseph's hospital this week in serious condition.

The archbishop was readmitted to the hospital Sept. 30 with continuing difficulties stemming from the aftereffects of a stroke suffered May 1 and recurring infection and dehydration. During August the archbishop had been under the care of the Hawthorne Dominican sisters at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Cancer Home. He received a phone call from Pope John Paul II Sept. 11 while the pope was in Columbia, SC, and attended the Mass of the Resurrection Sept. 4 for Sister Stella Maris Bergin, RSM, who had cared for him at St. Joseph's earlier this summer.

Two days before reentering the hospital the archbishop was visited briefly by Archbishop Pio Laghi, the Apostolic Pro-Nuncio for the United States. Archbishop Laghi, the pope's representative in this country, was informed by the archdiocese in August that the archbishop's health prevented him carrying out his pastoral care of the archdiocese at this time, and Monsignor John F. McDonough was elected administrator. This July marked the 19th anniversary of the archbishop's pastoral leadership of the archdiocese.