When Archbishop Edward Weisenburger was formally installed as Archbishop of Detroit last week, the liturgy included an interesting hiccup: There was no papal bull in the building to actually make Weisenburger the archbishop.
‘It’s all legal!’: How the nuncio installed Detroit’s archbishop by his own decree
With Pope Francis too ill to sign the necessary papal bull, Cardinal Pierre said he was installing Archbishop Weisenburger on his own authority