Pope Benedict Quickly Appoints New Bishop For American Armed Forces

Wow this was quick. In case people are keeping track my little ole Diocese of Shreveport is still Sede vacante.

Whispers in the Loggia has a important post on the man that will head archdiocese for the Military Services USA (AMS) and its fold of 1.4 million Catholics. Go see Father-General: Nuncio's Four-Star Homecoming. Here is a part:
Not even seven weeks after Archbishop Edwin O'Brien -- the military's shepherd of a decade -- was installed in the Premier See of Baltimore, the homecoming of the 55 year-old veteran diplomat, a former chief of staff to the Secretary of State, would come with a speed unseen in recent times for an American appointment. The rapid pace of the succession process would seem to signal the import with which the Holy See holds the pastoral care of the nation's armed services spread across the globe, but would also match the DC-based post with a prelate keenly aware of the Vatican's oft-critical views of American policy, both at home and abroad.

I shall try to learn more about him over the weekend.