Cathcon readers will not be slow in coming forward
I suspect. Holy Smoke of the UK's Daily Telegraph is giving all a chance to be heard about who should succeed Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor as Archbishop of Westminster.
All you have to do is send a name of a priest or bishop who you would like to suggest to nextcardinal@yahoo.com. Also tell your many friends!
See also Vote for the next cardinal
"My little exercise in direct democracy has really annoyed the hierarchy. For a Church that talks endlessly about the “role of the laity”, it doesn’t much like it when lay people interfere in such a sensitive matter.
Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor is expected to step down in the next 18 months, and the “magic circle” of smug liberals is desperate to see one of its own promoted to Westminster. We’ll see.
All I can say now is that precious few of the candidates submitted to my web address belong to the old boys’ club: the inbox is filling up with the names of talented clergy who would make marvellous bishops but don’t tick the right PC boxes. Please, tell your friends to write in. This is your only chance – because, let’s face it, no one in the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales is going to ask your opinion."
All you have to do is send a name of a priest or bishop who you would like to suggest to nextcardinal@yahoo.com. Also tell your many friends!
See also Vote for the next cardinal
"My little exercise in direct democracy has really annoyed the hierarchy. For a Church that talks endlessly about the “role of the laity”, it doesn’t much like it when lay people interfere in such a sensitive matter.
Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor is expected to step down in the next 18 months, and the “magic circle” of smug liberals is desperate to see one of its own promoted to Westminster. We’ll see.
All I can say now is that precious few of the candidates submitted to my web address belong to the old boys’ club: the inbox is filling up with the names of talented clergy who would make marvellous bishops but don’t tick the right PC boxes. Please, tell your friends to write in. This is your only chance – because, let’s face it, no one in the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales is going to ask your opinion."
English and Welsh Catholics deserve better.
Just what are the Bishops trying to prove here at the Bilateral meeting between the Catholic Bishops’ Conference and the Church of England House of Bishops, Leeds November 2006. 
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