ROME
Philly.com
Ann Rodgers, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Posted: Sunday, March 3, 2013
ROME – Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the archbishop of Washington, D.C., hasn’t decided whom he will vote for in the papal election, but he has a clear vision of the kind of man the church needs.
He must exude holiness and have a gift for making the Catholic faith compelling to those who have rejected what they know of it, he said Saturday.
When the new pope is introduced, “He needs to step out onto that balcony and he needs to say, ‘Christ is with us. We need to listen to him. He has the answers to the questions of the human heart. He shows us a better way to live than the secular world can offer.’ ”
Wuerl, 72, who was bishop of Pittsburgh from 1988 to 2006, spoke at St. Peter in Chains, his titular church in Rome. Historically the cardinals were the priests of Rome, so the pope assigns each of them a church here.
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