Dear incredulous joe,
Hope I see you at the March! We should be there, too!
Archbishop Wuerl will be the main speaker at the March for Life.
Archbishop Wuerl is not a cardinal. I don't know when he will be made one, although it's highly likely that it will come sooner or later. Every Archbishop of Washington has been made a cardinal since the archdiocese's separation from the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
Cardinal McCarrick was created cardinal almost immediately after becoming Archbishop of Washington.
Conversely, Cardinal Hickey was made Archbishop of Washington in 1980, but was created a cardinal until 1988.
Many folks wondered why Pope John Paul II waited eight years to make him a cardinal.
Cardinal Baum, who preceded Cardinal Hickey, was appointed in 1973, and created a cardinal in 1976.
Cardinal O'Boyle was appointed archbishop in 1947, but not made a cardinal until 1967, some twenty years later.
Cardinal O'Boyle was the first resident archbishop of the See, and perhaps because it was a brand-new jurisdiction, that was the reason for the wait.
Archbishop Wuerl is 65, so he will likely serve 10+ years here in Washington.
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But he can't vote for the next pope after 70, right? Or is it 80?