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If offered job in nation’s capital, archbishop says he’ll try to stay in Denver
By Jean Torkelson, Rocky Mountain News
June 2, 2005
Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput’s name is being churned in the rumor mill as the next archbishop of Washington, D.C. - and the noise is so loud that even Chaput is acknowledging it.
“Every other day I hear it from people who like to speculate,” Chaput said Wednesday, calling the buzz “ecclesiastical gossip.”
“I’m very, very happy where I am, and I hope I’m effective here,” he said. “I hope I stay here, and that’s not posturing.”
Chaput’s name has been floated before - in 2003 as the next archbishop of St. Louis and a year earlier as possible successor to Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston.
The talk comes not from official sources - bishops are chosen by the pope in consultation with advisers. Still, strong candidates, like Chaput, often end up as the object of handicapping.
The latest speculation rose from a “perfect storm” of events. On July 8 the present cardinal of Washington, Theodore McCarrick, will turn 75 and by church law must turn in his resignation, though it need not be accepted. A vacancy in the nation’s capital prompts many to think of the 60-year-old Denver archbishop.
He became nationally known for his tough talk to Catholic politicians and voters during the election season, saying they had to follow church teachings when deciding public policy issues such as abortion and euthanasia.
In May, Chaput was portrayed in a lengthy piece in The New Yorker magazine as a pivotal American bishop under the new Pope Benedict XVI. That month he also shared a dais with President Bush at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, where he continued his theme that Catholic politicians must practice their faith in their public life. . . .
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By Jean Torkelson, Rocky Mountain News
June 2, 2005
Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput’s name is being churned in the rumor mill as the next archbishop of Washington, D.C. - and the noise is so loud that even Chaput is acknowledging it.
“Every other day I hear it from people who like to speculate,” Chaput said Wednesday, calling the buzz “ecclesiastical gossip.”
“I’m very, very happy where I am, and I hope I’m effective here,” he said. “I hope I stay here, and that’s not posturing.”
Chaput’s name has been floated before - in 2003 as the next archbishop of St. Louis and a year earlier as possible successor to Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston.
The talk comes not from official sources - bishops are chosen by the pope in consultation with advisers. Still, strong candidates, like Chaput, often end up as the object of handicapping.
The latest speculation rose from a “perfect storm” of events. On July 8 the present cardinal of Washington, Theodore McCarrick, will turn 75 and by church law must turn in his resignation, though it need not be accepted. A vacancy in the nation’s capital prompts many to think of the 60-year-old Denver archbishop.
He became nationally known for his tough talk to Catholic politicians and voters during the election season, saying they had to follow church teachings when deciding public policy issues such as abortion and euthanasia.
In May, Chaput was portrayed in a lengthy piece in The New Yorker magazine as a pivotal American bishop under the new Pope Benedict XVI. That month he also shared a dais with President Bush at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, where he continued his theme that Catholic politicians must practice their faith in their public life. . . .
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