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【Pure water】Dolan Is Surprise Pick to Lead U.S. Bishops’ Group
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BALTIMORE — In a close and surprising vote, the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops elected Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York as their president on Tuesday, upending years of tradition by failing to elevate the vice president to the president’s post for the first time. The vote in many ways cements Archbishop Dolan’s leadership of the American church. He is already the prelate of the nation’s most visible diocese, is comfortable in the media spotlight and was selected by the Vatican to help conduct an investigation of the church in Ireland, which has been devastated by the sexual abuse scandal. The bishops passed over their former vice president, Bishop Gerald Kicanas of Tucson, a prelate who represents the more liberal “social justice” tradition of the American church and is known as an advocate of dialogue. Archbishop Dolan is a moderate conservative who is willing to put his affable and outgoing demeanor in service of a more assertively confrontational approach in the public arena. The final vote, after 10 candidates were narrowed to 2, was 128 for Archbishop Dolan and 111 for Bishop Kicanas. “It is a humbling moment,” Archbishop Dolan said in a quick post-election appearance on the church channel Telecare, which is run by the Diocese of Rockville Centre on Long Island and is broadcasting the bishops meeting from Baltimore. “I’ve got to be honest, it was unexpected. “The posture of bishops is that you don’t really run for office,” he said. “Our major drive and our major focus is our own diocese.” The bishops also signaled that their conference will move in a decidedly conservative direction in their choice of a vice president. They elected Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville, who is chairman of the bishops committee on marriage and an outspoken opponent of same-sex marriage. The runner-up for vice president was Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Denver, also a strong theological and political conservative. The Rev. Thomas J. Reese, a senior fellow at the Woodstock Theological Seminary at Georgetown University and a liberal Catholic commentator, said, “The two vice presidential finalists were the two most conservative on the ballot. That says something about where this conference is going.” |
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