The Washington Post reports:
The Vatican named one of the United States’ leading liberal Catholic prelates Monday to run the prominent D.C.-area archdiocese, sending to the nation’s capital, as a second Trump administration begins, a cleric known for a pastoral approach to migrants and for the “radical inclusion” of the LGBTQ+ community.
San Diego Cardinal Robert McElroy, who for a decade has headed a diocese running the length of California’s southern border with Mexico, will take over an archdiocese still bruised by a major sexual abuse and mismanagement scandal that broke in 2018.
Speaking at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, McElroy delivered a message of unity and gratitude on Monday. He thanked Pope Francis, celebrated African Americans, addressed the Hispanic community in Spanish, called for inclusion and stressed the importance of trying to understand the “other.”
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This is BIG news in the Catholic Church. Pope Francis is naming the U.S. Catholic Church’s leading liberal bishop & leading intellectual, Cardinal Robert McElroy, as the new archbishop of Washington, D.C. Almost certainly a direct response to Trump’s election.
www.washingtonpost.com/religion/202…— David Darmofal (@daviddarmofal.bsky.social) January 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
In appointing Cardinal Robert McElroy as the new archbishop of Washington, the Holy Father has just selected one of the brightest and most capable clerics in the entire US church.
— James Martin, SJ (@jamesmartinsj.bsky.social) January 6, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Cardinal Robert McElroy is a scholar of American political history and its nexus with Catholic theology. The California native studied at Harvard and Stanford and brings pastoral experience at the San Diego border. More from Michael Sean Winters.
— National Catholic Reporter (@ncronline.bsky.social) January 6, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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