Go here to read the story. McElroy was appointed to DC yesterday. Cardinal McElroy is a doctrinaire leftist and, apparently, a supporter of the Lavender Mafia. PopeWatch assumes Francis is moving him to DC to signal his displeasure with the American people re-electing Trump. Prior to this election Francis had indicated that he did not intend to send McElroy to DC. In any case, DC will keep up its string of lousy Cardinals.
This Pope is a vindictive and petty man with a very fragile ego. May God Almighty depose and anathematize him and all his works.
I hope the straights in DC give this lavender boy a hard time.
I guess you’re have a bad time with a bad bishop, just think of what your brothers and sisters have been going through in DC.
As a member of the Archdiocese of Washington, I had no problem with Cardinal Gregory. We’ve had increasing vocation numbers, and I always find good liturgies. As the hosts of the March for Life, we’ve got maybe the most active pro-life movement in the country.
Eric Sammons at Crisis Magazine has a good op ed on this topic today.
https://crisismagazine.com/editors-desk/the-dimishment-of-the-dc-archdiocese-continues-apace
McElroy was a good boy when it came to omerta over McCarrick. Remember Sipe’s letter?
https://www.ncregister.com/news/questions-raised-about-mcelroy-s-response-to-2016-mccarrick-allegations
The truth about McCarrick must be buried at all costs. Throw in that he’s a lickspittle, a dissident when it comes to moral theology, and per his response to Sipe a horrible human being….McElroy is perfect for DC.
Both as a cleric and a politician.
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My recollection is that Sipe claimed ca. 2002 that 50% of the homosexually-inclined priests were unchaste, not 50% of all priests. (Not sure where he came up with these numbers).
We’ve had increasing vocation numbers
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How many of them grew up in the archdiocese?
With Gregory staying as emeritus and McElroy coming as the new sheriff, I doubt much will change in the DC diocese. As far as I can see, two peas now occupy the same pod.
What now for McElroy’s San Diego? Is there now a chance for improvement in that newly vacant pod?
I will pray to St James (San Diego) for obvious reasons. I will also pray to St Thomas A Becket, in hopes that the one appointing the archbishop gets more than he bargained for!
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As one who has lived in McElroy’s diocese his entire tenure and a long time prior, I have to say he is a more complex figure than many of his critics want to think. To be sure, is definitely doctrinaire leftist and a made man in the Lavender Mafia. But he has been ostensibly supportive of the pro-life movement here. Either he himself or one of his auxiliaries are present at even low key pro-life events. He has even led prayer gatherings outside Planned Parenthood. The only other diocesan bishop I am aware of who has done that is Strickland.
He has also been pretty indulgent toward the FSSP here. I think he has even allowed St. Anne’s, the FSSP parish here, to expand.
Speaking of Trump, interestingly enough, McElroy publicly praised some of Trump’s pro-life efforts early in Trump’s first term.
While Cdl. McElroy is bad, he should be an improvement over Cdl. Wilton Gregory.
Greg Mockeridge –
Admittedly not apples to apples, but Bishop DeGrood in SD has been a key note speaker at the SD March for Life at the state capital. He also spearheaded the ecumenical opposition to making the “right” to abortion part of the state constitution. Happily, he has not been given the Strickland treatment.
Optimist, San Diego was named for St. Didicus, not St. James. It’s a common confusion, though, probably from misunderstanding the Spanish battle cry of “Santiago” ( “Iago” being “James”). In any case, I am both relieved and apprehensive by the news.
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Apologies to you, and St Didicus! From what I read online, he was A James, but not THAT James… Good to know.
I can only assume they are trading mail in the heavenly places 😁
If the intent was to install high level criticism of the new Trump administration, both Poe and Cardinal may be a bit disappointed at how little attention will be paid to both in the administration. Biden used Gregory as a prop for his supposed “devout” Catholicism, something not needed now.
Thanks for the man on the ground perspective Greg. I hope he keeps up his pro-life activities in DC.
Garak quotes always get a thumbs up from me LQC!
P. Francis’ alleged position of avoiding the elevation of “careerists” in higher Church positions can be tossed on the dustbin, another Peronist style contradiction, as McElroy has been of the most blatantly venal of Church careerists.
He is almost a Card. Cupich “twin” in that he has hounded traditional priests into early retirement or into leaving the active priesthood and is down to only 130 active priests in his diocese for about 1.4 million Catholics. He only had one priest ordained this last year (2024) and my understanding is that has been the case for each of the prior several years. I know of at least one traditional priest who privately loathed him for his entirely secularist mentality and his hostility to traditional Catholic beliefs.
@ LCQ: “ Sometimes I wonder whether the quadrant is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it.” -Elim Garak, Deep Space 9
LCQ, you could make some serious $$$ putting that on a T-shirt & selling it.
Greg Mockeridge – I don’t know that supporting the modern LGBTQ movement, and by extension the sexual revolutions of the 20th Century from which it emerged, is compatible with being pro-life, given the horrific body count and endless suffering it has brought. At best, anti-abortion I’d think.
Yup, this is punishment. Bergoglio really does have a bug up his arse for the USA. Trump in his head 24/7. So be it.
A good article at The Pillar plausibly suggests that McElroy’s appointment was a reaction to Trump’s pick of Brian Burch as U.S. ambassador to the Holy See.
https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/how-cardinal-mcelroy-came-to-washington
Trump could just let Burch advise on every single R visa that is applied for by the Vatican…
Let them keep their heresy adjacent liberal clerics in Rome.