View Comments
Francis George greets parishioners Wednesday after his installation as Chicago's eighth archbishop at the Holy Name Cathedral, where he sometimes worshiped as a child. The new leader of the nation's second-largest Roman Catholic archdiocese says he wants the 2.3 million members of his congregation to see him simply as "Francis, your neighbor." Pope John Paul II in April appointed George, who at the time was archbishop of Portland, Ore., to fill the vacancy left by the much-loved Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, who died Nov. 14 of cancer. George says he will staunchly defend church doctrine.