Catholics in the
Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis finally have the intelligent,
healing leadership they deserve in newly named Archbishop Bernard Hebda,
who, after first serving as interim, has been appointed to the post
permanently by Pope Francis.
Hebda’s
formal installation mass next month will mark a new chapter in a
community that has suffered deeply in recent years, both from the
botched handling of numerous cases of priest-involved child sex abuse
and from the bitter and costly fight over same-sex marriage launched by
the previous archbishop.