Will cross-continental bishops become Leo XIV’s signature?
Does the pope have a penchant for continent-crossing episcopal nominations?
History will be made in Mainz Cathedral March 15, when the Latin Catholic Church in Germany gains its first non-European bishop.
Fr. Joshy Pottackal, O. Carm., who was born in India but is a naturalized German citizen, will serve as an auxiliary bishop of Mainz, a diocese in southwest Germany…