In a Jan. 17 joint statement, Cardinal Robert W. McElroy of San Diego and Archbishop John C. Wester of Santa Fe, New Mexico, said the "tens of thousands" of deaths resulting from the Israel-Hamas war and the risk of wider escalation "calls
Cardinal Robert W. McElroy of San Diego apologized to a group of children in Rome for having forgotten most of the Italian he had learned as a student in their city.
But his promise to them, and their pledge to him in return,
As U.S. bishops engage in a war of words through Catholic media outlets, Father Joshua Whitfield writes that while episcopal infighting is nothing new, dangers lurk: “It’s time we admit it. The Catholic Church … well, there’s division in the ranks —
What would it mean to reach out to those who feel alienated from the Church? In a recent article in America Magazine, Cardinal Robert W. McElroy, bishop of San Diego, called for, among other things, “radical inclusion” of “L.G.B.T. persons” to the
Cardinal Robert W. McElroy, bishop of San Diego, in his widely contested, recent essay in America Magazine, wrote, “The heart of Christian discipleship is a relationship with God the Father, Son and Spirit rooted in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus