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On the day Congress certified Donald Trump’s 2024 election as president, Pope Francis named Cardinal Robert W. McElroy to become the new archbishop of Washington, D.C. It was a historic and well ...
Robert Walter McElroy (born February 5, 1954) is an American Catholic prelate who was elevated to the cardinalate by Pope Francis in 2022 and was also appointed as Archbishop of Washington in 2025. He has served as the Bishop of San Diego since 2015 and continues in that position until his installation as the Archbishop of Washington, which is ...
McElroy has described mass deportations of immigrants as “incompatible with Catholic doctrine.” On Sunday, Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago, also criticized the deportation plans .
Cardinal Robert McElroy, 70, has been the bishop of San Diego since 2015. He will replace Cardinal Wilton Gregory, who has led the archdiocese of Washington since 2019 and is retiring.
Every pew was filled. Roman Catholic Cardinal Robert McElroy, who was recently elected Archbishop of Washington (DC), led a vigil focusing on protecting immigrants in the afternoon. The predominantly latino march was joined by U.S. Rep Juan Vargas. [9]
Less than a week after Vice President JD Vance shared the inauguration stage with a senior Catholic cardinal, Vance picked a fight with the top American leaders of his church. The new vice president, a Catholic convert, accused the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops of resettling “illegal immigrants” in order to get federal funding.
In response to the McCarrick-Vigano controversy, the Pope called a bishops’ conference on abuse scheduled for 2019 and appointed Cardinal Cupich to the organizing committee. [9] In December 2018 the Attorney General of Illinois , who launched an investigation in summer 2018 following reporting of the Grand jury investigation of Catholic ...
McElroy, 70, replaces Cardinal Wilton Gregory, who at 77 is two years beyond the normal retirement age for bishops. Francis has long had his eye on McElroy, making him bishop of San Diego in 2015 ...