A brand new archbishop for New York, attentive to the poor and marginalized like Leo XIV | EUROtoday

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Pope Leo Timothy Dolanwho led New York’s 2.8 million Catholics for 16 years.

Dolan, following Vatican guidelines, resigned upon turning 75 in February. Like Robert Francis Prevost, Hicks can be a supporter of Pope Francis’ welcoming and inclusive imaginative and prescient of Catholicism, with a watch to social justice.

Born in Harvey, Illinois, in 1967, Hicks grew up in South Hollandnot removed from the suburb of Chicago the place Pope Leo XIV additionally grew up.

Hicks acknowledged the similarities between himself and Pope Leo XIV in an interview earlier this 12 months with WGN, a Chicago tv station. “We literally grew up in the same radius, in the same neighborhood. We played in the same parks, went swimming in the same pools, liked the same pizza places,” Hicks stated.

Like Prevost, who spent greater than a decade in Peru, Hicks stated he was impressed in his ministry by his time in Latin America, the place, from 2005 to 2010, he served in El Salvador as regional director of Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos, a nonprofit dwelling for orphans and deserted kids.