Synod: Interview with Archbishop Donald Wuerl
Interview with Archbishop Donald Wuerl
October 10, 2008
Archbishop Donald Wuerl of Washington, D.C. is an old Rome hand. He earned a doctorate in theology from the Angelicum in 1974, and later returned to Rome as secretary to Cardinal John Wright, who served as Prefect of the Vatican?s Congregation for Clergy from 1969 to 1979. This is Wuerl?s fourth Synod of Bishops, though his first as the Archbishop of Washington; he succeeded Cardinal Theodore McCarrick in the nation?s capital in June 2006.