Pope Benedict XVI May Appoint Next Archbishop of England and Wales

The reason I am following the story so closely is because Cardinal Murphy O'Connor has been so vehemently against the Traditional Latin Mass. He even prevented Archbishop Burke from conducting a TLM at Westminster Cathedral.

I hope the next Archbishop of Westminster will be more flexible.

The Pope has been forced to intervene in a damaging power struggle over who will become the next spiritual head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales.

Pope Benedict XVI will decide next week who should succeed Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor as Archbishop of Westminster. It is possible that he will shun all five candidates vying for the post and impose a Vatican diplomat instead.

The highly unusual move is the result of his advisers’ failure to reach a consensus on the best candidate.

The Catholic Church in England and Wales is riven by splits and opponents of at least two of the candidates have lobbied the Vatican in an attempt to sabotage the candidates’ hopes.

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