BOSTON (MA)
Milford Daily News
By Eric Convey / Boston Herald
Wednesday, July 2, 2003
Boston’s sandal-clad archbishop-elect asked yesterday for help from fellow Catholics and forgiveness from victims of clergy sex abuse.
“I feel acutely aware of my own deficiencies in the face of the task at hand and I ask for your prayers and your collaboration,” Bishop Sean P. O’Malley said during a news conference at St. John’s Seminary in Brighton.
O’Malley, who is likely to take over the archdiocese in August, said he was “not sure why the pope picked me.”
But he added, “I take up the challenge of being archbishop of Boston because I love the church.”
The 59-year-old Capuchin Franciscan brother, wearing customary Franciscan garb, alternated between folksy self-deprecation and confident resolve.