"Bishop McFadden, Welcome to Harrisburg"

More to come, but for now, here's an early shot from the Harrisburg presser... and with it, the end of an era back home.

Just shy of a half-century since John Krol's appointment as the sixth archbishop, with Bishop Joe McFadden's transfer to the capital, the last vestige of the Golden Age has left the Philadelphia Chancery.

And if that ain't a ground-changer for this town, folks, then nothing is.

SVILUPPO: Here below, the statement gone viral....


And the Q&A's likewise up, albeit in multiple parts.

PHOTO: Paul Kuehnel/York Daily Record

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