Coadjutor?

The buzz is official, according to the Star Tribune:  Archbishop Flynn has asked Rome to appoint a coadjutor.  Essentially, that means a successor, one who starts work while Abp. Flynn is still in charge — I suppose to smooth the transition and to ease the workload on the archbishop in the years and months before he retires.

Here’s the Strib article.  Here’s the Hadleys’ take on it at OWAWTI. 

I first heard that rumor over after-Mass pancakes the morning after the local Catholic bloggers’ get-together.   I won’t speculate.   I think the Hadleys have it right about the paper’s coverage (except that they gave the final quote a pass, the one where the professor from the St. Paul Seminary says that she hopes for an appointee who "doesn’t take strong ideological positions."  Cue the eye-rolling, please.)

I’ve got nothing to add to this story for now…