Robert Cardinal McElroy to be eighth archbishop of Washington, D.C. [View all]
I did not see this coming!
https://apnews.com/article/vatican-washington-trump-mcelroy-8390173f467e13a9ea8387aea5d0316c
ROME (AP) Pope Francis on Monday named Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego as the archbishop of Washington, tapping one of his most progressively like-minded allies to head the Catholic Church in the U.S. capital at the start of Donald Trumps second administration.
At a press conference, McElroy said he prayed the incoming administration would work to make America a better place. But he also identified Trumps threats of mass deportations of immigrants as a point of potential conflict, saying such policies were incompatible with Catholic doctrine.
McElroy, 70, replaces the retiring Cardinal Wilton Gregory, who steps down after having navigated the archdiocese through the fallout of the 2018 eruption of the clergy sexual abuse crisis.
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