Thomas S. Monson New President of LDS Church

As expected and in accordance to precident, Thomas S. Monson has been named the new President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Elder Monson seemend destined for the role from the time he was named to the Apostleship at the age of 36, making him one of the youngest men to be ordianed to that office in the 20th Century (Eighty years of age at the time of his ordination as President, he is also relatively young for that office, in comparssion to some of his recent predeccesors). A Time Magaizne reporter once called Monson a "slightly less capable Hinckleyite. Having the public relations instincts of Hinckley, but not the high level skills." As President Hinckley's way with the media was so groundbreaking for a Mormon leader, President Monson has almost impossible shoes to fill in that regard, but I think he will handel himself capably, he was after all generial manager of a major newspaper (the Deseret News).

The term Hinckleyite works though as the new President has long been very much in line with the late presidents polices and world views. He is a moderate by Mormon standards, and I think it reveling of where he wants to go with his administration in his 'stay the course' calling of two men Gordon B. Hinckley ordanided to the Apostleship (Henry B. Eyring and Dieter F. Uchtdorf) as his councilars in the First Presidency (I hope to comment more on the new First Presidency in the future). Anyway after nearly 13 years of President Hinckley's rule, the only Church president whose administration I clearly remember as such, it's going to take a little getting use to of Monson (the consement second in command) as President of the Church. I think should be a mostly smooth however.

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