UNITED STATES
Crux
Inés San Martín November 14, 2016
VATICAN CORRESPONDENT
Today the U.S. bishops gathered in Baltimore will elect new leaders, in a ballot likely to be taken as a referendum both on what they think of Pope Francis and also how they want to react to the presidency of Donald Trump. Here are sketches of the ten candidates.
For the second time in a month, Americans are going to the polls, although this time it’s only the few hundred bishops who compose the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in the U.S. who’ll be casting a vote.
As they do every three years, the American bishops will be electing their leadership, including their president and vice president.
Beyond electing new leaders, during their Nov. 14-16 fall general assembly, taking place in Baltimore, the American bishops also will discuss ways to promote peace in U.S. communities torn apart by violence, and will vote on an action plan to support the priorities they approved last year.
The list of ten nominees to replace Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky and Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston in their respective roles as president and vice-president was released late October. The bishops will elect the president first from this set of ten names, and then will select a number two from whoever’s left.
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