McCarrick Retires; Pope Names Wuerl Archbishop of Washington

Washington D.C.’s Cardinal Theodore McCarrick retires and Bishop Donald Wuerl is named as his successor, in this week’s full-text RNS article, by National Correspondent Dan Burke (linked above).

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Almost immediately, however, Wuerl was asked to wade into thorny thickets such as immigration, abortion and “The Da Vinci Code.” At first he fended off questions with humor and pleas for patience, saying he had “not been here long enough to know how to get back and forth to the cathedral.”

When pressed, the soft-spoken new archbishop said his political philosophy is pragmatic rather than liberal or conservative, and said he prefers the role of pastor to that of political activist.