NATION IN BRIEF : MICHIGAN : Detroit Cardinal Given Vatican Post
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Cardinal Edmund C. Szoka, who presided over the largest closing of Roman Catholic churches in U.S. history, will leave the archdiocese of Detroit to take a top financial post in Rome, the Vatican announced. Pope John Paul II named Szoka, 62, currently the head of the nation’s fifth-largest archdiocese, as president of the Vatican’s Prefecture for Economic Affairs. Last year, Szoka ordered 35 parishes in Detroit closed because of sharply declining membership.
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