Rev. Fr. James Checchio, bishop of the Diocese of Metuchen in New Jersey, has been named the next archbishop of the Archdiocese of New Orleans by Pope Leo XIV, taking over from a retiring Archbishop Gregory Aymond. A scholar of church law and the former leader of the American seminary in Rome, Checchio, 59, will serve alongside Aymond as coadjutor archbishop before taking the reins of the nation's second-oldest Roman Catholic diocese in coming months, the Vatican announced on Wednesday. Click th