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	Kicanas Elected Bishops' Vp, Draws Fire from Critic Associated Press, carried in KVOA November 13, 2007 http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=7353397&nav=HMO6 TUCSON, Ariz. — Bishop Gerald Kicanas has been elected vice president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, normally the post leading to subsequent election as president. Kicanas follows Chicago Cardinal Francis George, who on Tuesday was elected president of the conference. Kicanas led the Tucson diocese through Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization proceedings during 2004 and 2005 in response to a priest sex abuse scandal that resulted in a wave of lawsuits. The election of both George and Kicanas drew criticism from the national director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, David Clohessy, who called it "a sad day for the American Catholic church. It's top two officials have terrible track records on child sex abuse and cover-up." A call to a spokesman for Kicanas seeking comment was not returned immediately.
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