There’s something very curious about the replacement of Cardinal Bernard Law in his post at a Roman basilica.
Cardinal Law is no longer the Archpriest of St. Mary Major basilica. That much is clear from today’s Vatican announcement. Archbishop Santos Abril y Castello now has that job. But what happened, exactly?
“The Vatican announced the resignation of Law, 80, today,” reports the Boston Herald. But the Vatican announced no such thing. That’s what makes this story so interesting.
A somewhat confused AP account illustrates the problem:
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Cardinal Law is no longer the Archpriest of St. Mary Major basilica. That much is clear from today’s Vatican announcement. Archbishop Santos Abril y Castello now has that job. But what happened, exactly?
“The Vatican announced the resignation of Law, 80, today,” reports the Boston Herald. But the Vatican announced no such thing. That’s what makes this story so interesting.
A somewhat confused AP account illustrates the problem:
The Vatican said Monday that Pope Benedict XVI had accepted the 80-year-old Law's resignation as archpriest of St. Mary Major basilica…
… The Vatican announcement made no mention of Law's resignation, though, merely noting in a perfunctory, two-line statement that Benedict had named a new archpriest for the basilica..........................
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