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At their fall meeting in Baltimore, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops elected a new president, Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky. Father Thomas Reese, SJ, senior analyst for the National Catholic Reporter, describes the new president and discusses the effect of Pope Francis on the US bishops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This senior analyst for the National Catholic Reporter says new US Conference of Catholic Bishops president Archbishop Kurtz is “not going to be just a simple culture warrior, I think he\u2019s going to have more complexity to him.” More →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":21088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[17914,17708,11054,4926,9129,7641],"class_list":["post-21085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","tag-catholic","tag-joseph-kurtz","tag-pope-francis-i","tag-thomas-reese","tag-archbishop-timothy-dolan","tag-us-conference-of-catholic-bishops","topics-culture-and-society","topics-religious-leaders","faith-catholic"],"yoast_head":"\nRev. 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