Posted on 12/18/2025 7:29:45 AM PST by Beowulf9
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Leo XIV tapped Bishop Ronald A. Hicks of Joliet, Illinois, to lead the influential Archdiocese of New York, replacing Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who led New York's 2.8 million Catholics for 16 years.
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*Groan
He rambled on in Spanish but never spoke any Chinese, Vietnamese or Ukrainian.
How many altar boys has he harmed?
Birds of a feather flock together.
Bshp is more like Francis.
I really miss that man....
Soon the US will become like the UK, were antique dealers strip old churches now owned by ordinary people. One UK antique dealer brags about personally stripping 500 churches.
With this sort of leadership in the Catholic Church, the end is neigh.
I'm not so concerned about the future of the church. It has outlasted far more troublesome leaders.
God is patient, but He loves His church.
npr??? i think we need to learn more. the TLM is practiced under him so he’s not a Francis clone, apparently.
me too.
No idea what a TLM is or what you mean.
The Roman Catholic Church had the great Pope St. John Paul II and the excellent Pope Benedict XIV in recent memory.
The papal throne was then inhabited by the awful semi=heretic Francis, and most recently by th failing Leo.
The RCC has survived for 2000 years and will continue to thrive, overcoming Leo and Francis.
Another clueless, commie Cardinal, no doubt.
Traditional Latin Mass,of course.
Ohhhh!
That’s nice to know :)
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