Can a Midwesterner who’s never lived in New York City succeed as the leader of more than 2 million Roman Catholics in and around the five boroughs?
If I could do it, Cardinal Timothy Dolan told his successor Ronald Hicks on Thursday, you can, too.
Pope Leo XIV announced that he had accepted Dolan’s resignation, which he offered by custom on his 75th birthday in February. Leo named Hicks, the bishop of Joliet, Illinois, to take his place. Hicks will be formally installed in February…