Tucson, Arizona Bishop Gerald Kicanas !!

Torpedoed in his bid to become the next President of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops!


Most likely this was his turn to be himself publicly outed, by the National Catholic Register's Tim Drake, over having stubbornly approved the ordination of the Rev. Daniel McCormack "who has [since] been convicted on multiple counts of molesting boys..."


Here's a snippet that's been free - wheelingly snipped from: The Catholic World Report. December 2010.

Bishop Kicanas the "sitting vice - president of the USCCB encountered controversy because of his involvement in the case of a Chicago priest who has been convicted on multiple counts of molesting boys.

"While the rector at Chicago's Mundelein Seminary, the future Bishop Kicanas approved the ordination of Daniel McCormack, despite clear evidence that McCormack had been involved in homosexual activities.

"Bishop Kicanas has defended his handling of the case, saying there is no evidence the seminarian had engaged in abusive behavior..."

But! His fellow bishops & archbishops did not buy it!

And so, he was unceremoniously voted into oblivion by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops in favor of New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan as "the next president of the USCCB,'' on November 16, 2010.