With Donald Trump once again assuming power, McElroy and Trump are on a collision course when it comes to immigration, the ...

We are in a moment of unprecedented division and uncertainty in both the church and society. That's why Pope Francis could ...

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.

Cardinal McElroy, widely seen as a progressive and an ally of Pope Francis, was appointed by the Pope to the College of Cardinals in August 2022. He has served as shepherd of San Diego since 2015 ...

Robert McElroy, 70, is expected to be named to the high-profile Roman Catholic post in the nation's capital, according to the National Catholic Reporter, followed by other sources.

Ahead of his permanent move to Washington, D.C., San Diego’s first-ever cardinal wanted thousands of people who attended ...

There will be at least two sets of clergy praying on this Inauguration Day for Donald Trump. One will be praying for Trump ...

Two weeks before Donald Trump returns to the White House, Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego was introduced as the next archbishop of Washington, D.C. during a press conference Jan. 6 in a side ...

Fellow Auxiliary Bishop Juan R. Esposito said that, as with Cardinal Gregory’s 2019 appointment, the naming of Cardinal McElroy to the Washington archdiocese was “yet another expression of our Holy ...

Cardinal McElroy also supports women deacons for the Church and is a vocal supporter of LGBT-identified Catholics. Born in San Francisco on Feb. 5, 1954, Bishop McElroy grew up in San Mateo County ...

Pope Francis has condemned President-elect Donald Trump ’s calls for mass deportations in the U.S. The Catholic Church ’s ...

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. The ...