New Chicago Prelate Pleads for Harmony

Archbishop Francis George was installed as leader of the nation’s third-largest Roman Catholic archdiocese, delivering a strongly worded homily calling for racial harmony to his Chicago flock. “In the church, every racial and cultural difference must be made public, so that everyone can come to know how Christ can be black, or white, or brown or yellow or red,” George said during the elaborate ceremony at Holy Name Cathedral. George, 60, acknowledged he was a surprise appointment by the pope to succeed the late Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin, who died of cancer in November.