The first native Chicagoan to serve as archbishop, he was a tenacious defender of orthodoxy respected for his intellectual gifts Cardinal francis George OMI, the Archbishop Emeritus of Chicago, has died from cancer. The cardinal stepped down as leader of the 2.2-million-member diocese last November, when Archbishop Blase Cupich was installed as the city’s ninth archbishop. Cardinal George had been fighting cancer for several years. “Cardinal George was a respected leader in the Church universal and in the United States,” said Archbishop Cupich. “He offered his counsel and support to three Popes, their collaborators in the Roman congregations and his brother bishops, always in charity and truth. When, for example, the Church struggled with the grave sin of clerical