{"id":9771,"date":"2025-12-18T20:34:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T20:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/?p=9771"},"modified":"2025-12-19T00:53:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T00:53:40","slug":"a-new-archbishop-cooperation-and-making-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/a-new-archbishop-cooperation-and-making-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Archbishop: Cooperation and Making Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e2bXijN6mPo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We got a new pope this year, Leo XIV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now we&#8217;ve got a new archbishop for the Archdiocese of New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Already I&#8217;m seeing the all-too-predictable headlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also noticed this excerpt from a transcript of a five-minute interview, complete with an embedded audio recording of the interview:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/pope\/news\/2025-12\/pope-leo-xiv-appoints-ronald-hicks-new-archbishop-new-york.html\">New Archbishop of New York: Church must bring God&#8217;s peace, healing to world<\/a>&#8221; <br>Devin Watkins, Vatican News (December 18, 2025)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;&#8230; &#8216;I grew up in the suburb right next door to Pope Leo, about 14 blocks away from each other. And like Pope Leo, I&#8217;m looking for a Church that brings God&#8217;s light to the world, His peace, His healing, His love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;I&#8217;m also looking forward to ways of doing so, not in a divisive way or tearing people apart, but looking for ways of unity and finding ways to cooperate with each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;And you brought up Pope Leo: I just want to publicly say I want to cooperate with him. I want to respect his priorities and work with him to help bring those to reality, to light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m just very grateful to Pope Leo, and I want to say it&#8217;s been my joy and honor serving both Chicago and Joliet. And I&#8217;m ready, with the help of God, to make this next step into New York.'&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Sound quality isn&#8217;t the best, but it&#8217;s clear enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m sharing this because I think there&#8217;s some value in reading or hearing what someone says; not just what some expert says he said, or what he really meant when he said it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The interviewer brought up a hot-button topic, so I&#8217;m pretty sure that some folks will be offended by what Archbishop Hicks said. Or what he didn&#8217;t say. Or how he said what he did say. 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