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The Archdiocese of Washington (DC and environs) has always been one of this nation’s most prominent — for obvious reasons. It is smack dab in the middle of the center of political power in the USA. Unfortunately, one doesn’t look to the Archdiocese of Washington as a see that leads the nation in vocations or one that leads the nation in conversions.
The archdiocese has had a woeful run of archbishops, going back to the sexual predator Theodore McCarrick, to his replacement Donald Wuerl, to his replacement Wilton Gregory, and now to Robert Cardinal McElroy, formerly archbishop of San Diego. Gregory and McElroy are both appointments made by Pope Francis.
Stories are told that the papal nuncio for the USA, Christophe Cardinal Pierre, recommended to Francis that McElroy not be made archbishop, that it would be too political. Yet, with the election of Donald Trump as POTUS 47, Pope Francis appointed McElroy. McElroy is the perfect Francis sycophant: all-in on the evil of global warming, the fight for “rights” for the LGBTQ movement, disdain for traditional Catholics, and the rights of “migrants”. Like Francis, one wonders if McElroy is concerned at all with vocations or conversions. The photo in this tweet paints a picture:
And Francis doesn’t seem at all worried about the knowledge that McElroy had about McCarrick and the sexual abuse scandals surrounding him. Francis may shrug this off because he himself is surrounded by these scandals.
I think the main reason Francis appointed McElroy is because of Trump’s plan to deport the violent criminal illegals that have entered the USA. Pope Francis has denounced this as morally unjust and madness. And he has his liberal bishops all fired up as well. From the liberal National Catholic Reporter:
And of course, all the usual suspects fall in line on Trump’s dastardly plan to deport violent criminal illegals:
There is a lot of money involved with “migration”. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops received nearly 3 billion dollars from the federal government during the Biden administration for their support of “migration”:
Pope Francis seems to have a great dislike for the Church in the USA and he certainly has no admiration or positive view of Donald Trump. So he put his bagman in DC, Cardinal Robert McElroy, not to help revive the archdiocese or draw people to Catholicism but to be a thorn in the side of Trump. Another shameful act from this Pope.
Does anyone remember the pearl-clutching exhibited by these bishops over Biden’s support for abortion, so-called SSM, or his gushing over everything LGBTQ? The USCCB has proved itself once again to be useless.
This is a good article on deportation from a Catholic point of view.
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Pope Francis is anti American.
Is it fair for me to describe him as anti-Western civilization?
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I would love to know why Benedict stepped down.
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Doc, he was old, sick, and tired. I would have stepped down too, had I been him.
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He was forced out by the Lavender Mafia. He should have never resigned. It was like a father abandoning his family. He had an entire case of documents outlining the filth in the Vatican that he handed over to Francis. Those seem to have been memory-holed
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Once Francis is bought, he stays bought.
Not my circus, not my monkeys.
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