Cardinal Francis George
died Friday. The former archbishop of Chicago succumbed to cancer after
an ecclesiastical career largely spent dealing with the many sicknesses
afflicting the modern Roman Catholic Church.
In recent years, his reputation was that of a conservative battling to stem the tide of secularism that witnessed millions of Catholics leaving the faith. One obituary even labeled him as "the American Ratzinger," referring to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the reactionary doctrinal watchdog under Pope John Paul II who instituted numerous conservative reforms in his own brief pontificate as Benedict XVI.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/04/18/francis-cardinal-george-catholic-pope-column/25980631/
In recent years, his reputation was that of a conservative battling to stem the tide of secularism that witnessed millions of Catholics leaving the faith. One obituary even labeled him as "the American Ratzinger," referring to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the reactionary doctrinal watchdog under Pope John Paul II who instituted numerous conservative reforms in his own brief pontificate as Benedict XVI.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/04/18/francis-cardinal-george-catholic-pope-column/25980631/