Cardinal Edmund Szoka, a remembrance

Cardinal Edmund Szoka, a remembrance

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Thomas Reese  |  Aug. 25, 2014

When I first met Cardinal Edmund Szoka in 1986, I knew very little about him except that he had a reputation as a conservative. I was in Detroit to interview him for what became my first book on the governance of the church, Archbishop: Inside the Power Structure of the American Catholic Church. I did not realize at the time that he was also going to end up in my books on the U.S. bishops' conference and the Vatican.