In a hopeful and historic new chapter for more than a million Roman Catholics in New Jersey, Cardinal Joseph William Tobin, a moderate churchman in the mold of Pope Francis, was officially installed Friday as leader of the Archdiocese of Newark.
Some 2,000 people crowded into Newark's soaring Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart, one of the largest cathedrals on the East Coast, to witness the transfer of authority to Tobin, 64, from Archbishop John J. Myers, who reached the mandatory retirement age of 75 in June.
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