Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego, one of Pope Francis’ ideological allies who has often sparred with more conservative U.S. bishops, was named by the pope on Sunday as one ofThe San Diego diocese said McElroy will be installed by Pope Francis on Aug. 27 at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.
said he would no longer allow U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to receive Communion because of her support for abortion rights.Advertisement He studied at St. Patrick Seminary in Menlo Park, and in 1985 received a theology degree at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley. He obtained a doctorate in moral theology at the Gregorian University in Rome the following year and a PhD in political science at Stanford in 1989.
Over recent years, McElroy has been among the relatively few U.S. bishops who questioned why the bishops’ conference insisted on identifying abortion as its “preeminent” priority. He has questioned why greater prominence was not given to issues such as racism, poverty, immigration and climate change.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
Excellent choice, although the church still needs to be paying taxes.
Who cares? Oh, someone got a job promotion, in the perv industry.
Cardinal of Santiago? the city natives of the land were slaughtered, to be salves of the invading terrorist Spanish forces, and spiritually enslaved to be the property pf the Hindu Pharaonic King and the Pope, as their Gods.
Fat man