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Stamford Advocate
Brittany Lyte
Published 10:09 pm, Wednesday, July 31, 2013
You can discern a lot about the style and ambitions of a pope from his bishop appointments.
Father Anthony Ciorra, a professor of theology at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, said Pope Francis’ appointment Wednesday of the Rev. Frank J. Caggiano to become the fifth bishop of the Diocese of Bridgeport illustrates of the pope’s will to modernize the church by infusing it with new, crisp energies. Caggiano, he said, appears to be no small part of that plan.
Ciorra knows Caggiano personally from his time helping parishes in Brooklyn. He describes the 53-year-old auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Brooklyn, N.Y., as a skilled listener. Smart. Enthusiastic. Forward-thinking.
They are words Ciorra also uses to describe Pope Francis.
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