According to the recent article about Bishop Edward Braxton, some consultative procedures were bypassed in the appointment process for Belleville, Ill. Could it be that this happened because Bishop Braxton is a protege of Cardinal Justin Rigali? Cardinal Rigali, now the archbishop of Philadelphia, was previously the archbishop of St. Louis, who ordained Bishop Braxton as auxiliary bishop of St. Louis in 1995. I think the cardinal, because of the many years he worked in the Vatican as ...