NEW JERSEY
Sunlit Uplands

“This is the day which the Lord hath made: let us be glad and rejoice therein.”

After suffering for more than a decade under one of America’s worst bishops, the Archdiocese of Newark has reason for hope with the installation today of Coadjutor Archbishop Bernard Hebda. He will share leadership of the Archdiocese with John J. Myers, until the latter’s retirement in no more than three years.

The pleas of many have been heard by Pope Francis with this appointment. And it is the most important appointment yet made in the United States by this Holy Father. Finally, an aloof, cold, arrogant and unapproachable monarch will be replaced by a true shepherd, an alter-Christus, who radiates Christ’s love in carrying out the Church’s salvific mission.

I came to recognize how utterly unsuited for pastoral leadership Archbishop Myers is shortly after he arrived in Newark. In…