Vatican seeking new face as Prague archbishop suggests bishop

The selection of a new archbishop of Prague to replace Miloslav Vlk has been stalled because the church is looking for new faces, the bishop of Hradec Králové, Dominik Duka, suggested on Wednesday. Duka said one problem was that most members of the main decision making body in the country, the Czech Bishops’ Conference, had been in office for around 20 years and had their roots in the period of totalitarian communist rule not freedom. He said that a new era needed new faces and speculated that was one reason why the Vatican had delayed announcing archbishop Vlk’s successor. Dominik Duka had been seen as one of the frontrunners for the position.