Braxton is being groomed for higher office, possibly a curial appointment or an archdiocese.
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But but but.....he's the protege of a Call to Action guy. Why promote him?
Rigali likes him. And Rigali is even tighter with BXVI than he was with John Paul II.
Rigali seems to be an affirmative action kingmaker: he has promoted more Hispanics and blacks than Bernardin did, hands down. Most of these appointments are deserved, to be sure. I fully expect over half the bishops of Texas to be Hispanic in ten years.