"Szoka plans to be active in retirement" - DFP

From the Detroit Free Press:

Cardinal Edmund Szoka, who led the Archdiocese of Detroit in the 1980s, is looking forward to pitching in with masses at metro Detroit Catholic parishes and spending part of his retirement years in the area after his 16-year stint at the Vatican ends.

"I'd be more than willing to help in the parishes on Sunday and hear confessions and do whatever I can do," Szoka said in a telephone interview Friday from his Vatican quarters behind St. Peter's Basilica. "I don't stop being a priest because I'm retiring."

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