From Grand Turk, I’m celebrating the news that Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York has been elected president of the Catholic Bishops’ conference back home. He wasn’t next-in-line for the slot, and it usually goes to next in line. It’s a clear sign that it’s not-business-as-usual at the conference, and among bishops. As (outgoing president) Francis Cardinal George told me last year, the Church is continually undergoing renewal, Christianity is a story of renewal. And so it is at the bishops’ conference. There has been a lot of Catholic scandal. It will be increasingly hard to miss, I suspect and pray, Catholic leadership.

Some coverage of the warm, ebullient, orthodox, confident Dolan’s election here.