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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 ...
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 ...
Penalties of this kind from bishops have generally targeted Democrats, possibly because pro-abortion rights Catholic Democrats are more vocal in their support for abortion rights than the few pro-abortion rights Catholic Republicans. [9] Proposals to deny communion to pro-abortion rights politicians are more common in the United States.
Following the 1968 publication of Humanae Vitae, an encyclical by Pope Paul VI that expressly forbade abortion and most methods of birth control [9] and that sowed controversy within the church over its restatement of the prohibition on birth control, [10] Catholic bishops in the United States started to stress anti-abortion views as a central facet of Catholic identity and preached against ...
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.
Trump has nominated a leading conservative Catholic activist, Brian Burch, president of CatholicVote, as Vatican ambassador — even as Pope Francis appointed a relatively progressive cardinal, Robert McElroy, as archbishop of Washington. But Vance's blast at the bishops conference stung.
Pope Francis greets Robert Walter McElroy during a consistory ceremony to elevate Roman Catholic prelates to the rank of cardinal, at Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, August 27, 2022.
Cardinal-designate Robert McElroy, who was appointed bishop of San Diego by Francis in 2015, will also be receiving his red hat, the symbol of the cardinals’ office, without ever having served ...