McElroy to Washington DC

Just a few days before Donald Trump becomes the next President, Washington DC will have still another new resident in Cardinal Robert McElroy who will become the new Archbishop, replacing Card. Wilton Gregory who is now 77. McElroy is 70 and  over the last decade has become one of the most vocal champions of Pope Francis' pastoral agenda among the U.S. hierarchy. He has frequently echoed the pope's prioritization of migrants and refugees, environmental concerns and a more welcoming approach to LGBTQ people.  McElroy, 70, was first made an auxiliary bishop of San Francisco in 2010 by Pope Benedict XVI and then named bishop of San Diego by Francis in 2015. In 2022, Pope Francis made him a Cardinal. He has a bachelor's degree from Harvard University, and a master's in U.S. history and a doctorate in political science from Stanford University, among other degrees. In 2017, just one month into Trump's first term, McElroy delivered a fiery speech to community activists that amounted to a direct opposition to the new president's political agenda.....in it he said....."We must disrupt those who would seek to send troops into our streets to deport the undocumented, to rip mothers and fathers from their families. We must disrupt those who portray refugees as enemies, rather than our brothers and sisters in terrible need. We must disrupt those who train us to see Muslim men and women and children as sources of fear rather than as children of God." So fasten your seat-belts as we’re due to have a few clashes over the next 4 years !