The Archbishop of San Antonio will take over the Church's biggest pastoral (and administrative) post in the US.
.In the process, the Mexican-born prelate - the lone American bishop professed as a numerary (full member) of Opus Dei - will make history, becoming the first Hispanic prelate to, in time, receive the red hat of a cardinal at the helm of a Stateside diocese.
Given that the Catholic Church in the US will soon be majority-Hispanic I imagine that Archbishop Gomez's ethnicity will be the big story out of this appointment. But the replacement of perhaps the most "liberal" US cardinal (not that there's much competition for that position) with a young (by Church standards) successor who'll soon be one of the few cardinals who are members of Opus Dei - that could be a story too.
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