Leo’s Chicago “Trifecta”: Cupich Protégé Tapped to Lead New York

Pope Leo XIV is set to appoint Bishop Ronald A. Hicks — a protégé of Chicago’s progressive Cardinal Blase Cupich — as the 11th Archbishop of New York, succeeding Cardinal Timothy Dolan.

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Four independent sources with direct knowledge tell Letters from Leo that Pope Leo XIV is naming Bishop Ron Hicks of Joliet, Illinois as the next Archbishop of New York, with an…