Word: archbishops
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...many Harvard alumni can faithfully say they are modern day shepherds with over two million strong in their flock? Not many-except of course, if you happen to be Boston's Archbishop Bernard...
...Holy Father is quite free in whom he names cardinal and when he names them. There is no rule anywhere that says the archbishop of Boston has to become a cardinal. There's just a precedent...
...diocese, it's really a recognition of the diocese. After all, I was in Missouri for ten years and no one ever had a rumor about me being named a cardinal. I'm the same person I was then, now! The difference is that I happen to be the Archbishop of Boston. That is a focus on the importance of the place...
From the relative obscurity of a small diocese in Missouri to the prominence of the nation's third largest archdiocese, Boston's Archbishop Bernard Francis Law '53 has become an immediate national figure in the 10 months since he was installed...
...Catholic Church was a political faction, then Boston's fifth archbishop would be a party man through and through. Law represents a new breed of American Catholic leaders who, according to Hollis Professor of Divinity Emeritus George Williams, increasingly reflect the conservative tone of John Paul's leadership on issues ranging from abortion to the role of religion in a pluralistic society...