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...month of bad public relations for the Vatican, the opportunity to name a replacement for the retiring and less-than-media-friendly Cardinal Edward Egan, 76, Archbishop of New York, was a godsend. The man announced on Monday to lead the archdiocese arrives well equipped for the job. Timothy Dolan, 59, who has been in charge of the Milwaukee Archdiocese since 2002, has long been considered among the most likable and loquacious senior American prelates. In the late 1990s, while serving as rector of the Pontifical North American College, the largest English-speaking seminary in Rome, he was a major...
Dolan, a St. Louis, Mo., native, is virtually guaranteed to rise to the rank of Cardinal in the next consistory - a formal meeting of the College of Cardinals - at the Vatican. Insiders expect that his first move will be to forge a more direct link not only with New York parishioners but with priests, who privately were among Egan's harshest critics. Still, because it involves New York City, the job is necessarily more than just simple parish work, ideally serving as something of a roving ambassador for American Catholicism and a bridge to every walk of life that exists...
...senior Vatican official said the appointment was a logical choice. "He appears well-suited for New York," the official says of Dolan. "And he is well-liked here. He's always done what has been asked of him." Such obedience to Rome has served Dolan well. Now he's about to find out what it's like to have millions of New Yorkers asking for things...
...whereabouts are unknown since he disappeared from La Reja earlier this month, has said he believes there were no gas chambers at Nazi concentration camps such as Auschwitz and that only 300,000 Jews were killed by Nazi Germany, contradicting the widely accepted figure of six million deaths. The Vatican ordered him to retract, but Williamson responded that he needs to review the evidence. Nevertheless, Williamson will be obeying the expulsion order and will leave Argentina shortly, according to Father Christian Bouchacourt, South American superior for the Society of St Pius X. "He already intended to leave before the order...
...wayside in the past few decades, but they're being revived in conjunction with a new emphasis on the importance of charity in Christian life. Catholicism, with 67 million followers in the U.S., is big on formulaic repetition of the Hail Mary and "Our Father" variety. But the Vatican is starting to move away from that and toward, according to the church's Manual of Indulgences, a "greater zeal for the exercise of charity...