New Shepherd in New Orleans

Surprisingly, I can’t find anything at the website of Catholic News Service about yesterday’s installation of the new archbishop of New Orleans, Gregory Aymond.

The Daily Blog wants to draw attention to the event anyway. So here’s a link to coverage in New Orleans’ The Times-Picayune today about the installation of a native son of the Big Easy to this important position in the hierarchy of the Church in America.

Church watcher extraordinaire Rocco Palmo has also posted a pair of entries this week related to the new archbishop, here and here at his Whispers in the Loggia blog. 

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