BALTIMORE (MD)
The Morning Call
By Dan Sheehan, Of The Morning Call
10:05 a.m. EST, November 12, 2013
Archbishop Joseph Kurtz, a former priest in the Diocese of Allentown, has been elected to lead the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Kurtz succeeds Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York.
“By what name will you be called?” Dolan asked Kurtz after this morning’s vote — a joking reference to the first question asked of a newly elected pope.
Kurtz, 67, who had been vice president of the bishops’ body, was one of 10 church leaders from around the country nominated to become the organization’s president.
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