My mother would have cried in joy to see Cardinal Joseph Tobin take over the Newark archdiocese on Friday, and for good reason.
Think of Tobin as our own Pope Francis. At the Vatican, he was the guy who defended spunky American nuns when conservatives wanted to discipline them for questioning church orthodoxies. And in Indiana, he was vigorous in his early and public embrace of Syrian refugees, as Jesus surely would have been.
"What I find is really important in positions like mine is being able to listen," Tobin said.
http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2017/01/the_dark_legacy_of_archbishop_john_myers_moran.html
Think of Tobin as our own Pope Francis. At the Vatican, he was the guy who defended spunky American nuns when conservatives wanted to discipline them for questioning church orthodoxies. And in Indiana, he was vigorous in his early and public embrace of Syrian refugees, as Jesus surely would have been.
"What I find is really important in positions like mine is being able to listen," Tobin said.
http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2017/01/the_dark_legacy_of_archbishop_john_myers_moran.html