5 years of trial and error

The ever-magnificent Michael Paulson up at the Boston Globe profiles Cardinal Sean O’Malley five years after he arrived to take over the scandal-scarred Archdiocese of Boston. Money quote: “Five years after he was installed as the Roman Catholic archbishop of Boston, O’Malley remains in many ways the most unusual of public figures – the prince […]

The ever-magnificent Michael Paulson up at the Boston Globe profiles Cardinal Sean O’Malley five years after he arrived to take over the scandal-scarred Archdiocese of Boston.

Money quote: “Five years after he was installed as the Roman Catholic archbishop of Boston, O’Malley remains in many ways the most unusual of public figures – the prince who dresses as the pauper, the leading man who hates the spotlight, the shy man prone to bouts of silence who has, in his own inexorable way, tackled one crushing problem after another, delivering the archdiocese from something close to free-fall to something akin to stability.”

While you’re at the Globe site, be sure to check out Michael’s new blog, Articles of Faith, where he often performs the function of personal ombudsman to try to explain to his readers how a story came together, and why. It’s worth a bookmark.


(photo credit: David L. Ryan/Boston Globe)

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