NATION IN BRIEF : MICHIGAN : Detroit Cardinal Given Vatican Post
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
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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