Lay leader laments ‘mysterious’ process in stalled Schönborn succession

Vienna's Catholics are still waiting for a new archbishop six months after the cardinal's departure.

A lay leader in Austria’s Vienna archdiocese criticized Friday the “very mysterious” search for a successor to Cardinal Christoph Schönborn.

Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, pictured in 2013. © Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk.

Reinhard Bödenauer, the president of Catholic Action in the Vienna archdiocese, lamented in a July 25 interview with Die Presse newspaper t…