US Catholic Bishops Elect a Culture Warrior

MARIAN RONAN reports in Religious Dispatches:

This brings us to the election of Archbishop Dolan as president of the USCCB. ...But his election is not a good sign. As the New York Times mentions, this is the first time a vice president has not been elected president of the USCCB since the 1960s. What theTimes fails to mention is that it happened then because the vice president was quite old and would have retired as bishop in the middle of his term. The rejection of a Bishop Kicanas is essentially unparalleled. As Thomas Reese SJ., the former editor of America has said, the election of Dolan signals the increasing investment of the US Catholic bishops in the culture wars.