You Don’t Know How Evil Cardinal McElroy Is...
Nor the evil of Francis who appointed him and of the bishops who support him.
Many of you are aware that Cardinal Robert McElroy was installed as the Archbishop of Washington this week in accord with Pope Francis’ appointment. You may be aware he is not a good appointment. But I venture that few of you are aware of just how awful, really evil McElroy is. I wasn’t.
And, yes, I mean evil. I do not use that word lightly.
To spare you — and me — from a long post and disturbing material, I will keep this brief and point you to more detailed sources.
Although McElroy has a history of cracking down on traditional Catholics, being quick to suppress the Latin Mass, being inhospitable to homeschoolers and more, he has gone to bat for pro-abortion Democrat politicians.
Three weeks before the 2020 presidential election, McElroy defended Joe Biden from critics of his pro-abortion positions, claiming that it was “offensive” and “repugnant” to dispute Biden’s Catholic identity, even though Biden supports virtually unlimited, taxpayer-funded abortion through all nine months of pregnancy….
During the early months of the Biden presidency, McElroy joined a letter urging then-president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Archbishop José H. Gomez to halt discussions of denying Holy Communion to pro-abortion politicians.
McElroy claimed in a 2021 essay that it would be “tremendously destructive” to ban pro-abortion politicians like Biden from Holy Communion and that doing so would be “instrumentalization” of the Eucharist “for a political end.”
McElroy’s concern about political ends is comical given he has been an eager rubber stamp of approval for just about every Democrat policy, including open borders, COVID, and climate change. But Trump? Orange Man bad!
Conversely, within days of Donald Trump’s 2017 inauguration, McElroy attacked the Republican president and encouraged participants at the Vatican-sponsored World Meeting of Popular Movements conference to become “disruptors” of his administration.
As for his teaching and practice, he is an apostate, particularly on alphabet issues. He even insists that unrepentant practicing homosexuals should be welcome to receive the Holy Sacrament.
In 2016, he slammed Church teaching that homosexual acts are “intrinsically disordered,” calling it “very destructive language.”
However, the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches, “Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that ‘homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.’”
Two years ago, McElroy sparked outrage for demanding “radical inclusion” of divorced and civilly “remarried” people and so-called “LGBT persons” that would allow them to receive Holy Communion without repenting of adultery or sodomy, in blatant contradiction to the teaching of the Church.
In a January 2023 essay for Jesuit-run America magazine, McElroy rejected what he described as a “theology of eucharistic coherence” and called for homosexual and gender-confused individuals to be included in “full participation in the life of the church,” even if they persist in sexual sin.
“The distinction between orientation and activity cannot be the principal focus for such a pastoral embrace because it inevitably suggests dividing the LGBT community into those who refrain from sexual activity and those who do not,” he wrote.
In a follow-up article, McElroy said that serious sin should not be “the basis for categorical ongoing exclusion from the Eucharist” and that “sexually active members of the L.G.B.T. communities” should be invited to “the eucharistic banquet.”
Most disturbing is how he has harbored sexual predators. With a warning that this is disturbing indeed, this video goes into some detail on that.
And let’s not engage in holy denial. Let’s not pass him off as just one Cardinal. McElroy is all too typical of the appointments Francis has made during his pontificate. And bishops and other “Catholic” sycophants flocked to his installation including “conservative” Timothy Dolan, here hugging another evil Francis appointment, Cardinal Blaise Cupich, during the procession.
Bishop Joseph Strickland is a godly exception. He has asked for Pope Francis to reconsider the appointment.
But remember Francis has already rewarded Strickland’s faithfulness by stripping him of the Bishopric of Tyler.
I hurt for faithful Roman Catholics who are being so spiritually abused by unfaithful bishops. Although I am trying to control anger during Lent, I am also angry for them, and I pray just about every day for them.
But faithfulness does not mean denial, naive triumphalism, and misplaced allegiance. It is awful that faithful Catholics are presented with hard choices by the betrayal by the RC episcopate. But the faithful must face up to those hard choices if they are to be faithful to Christ and His Church instead of to Satanic apes of Christ and His Church. Of course, Roman Catholics are not the only ones who must face such hard choices in the midst of prevalent apostasy.
But that is a hard topic for another time. For now, we all need to have open eyes concerning the evil of Robert McElroy, of the Pope who appointed him, and of the bishops who support him.
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Very much related, some Roman Catholics have written an open letter calling upon the Trump Administration to launch a RICO investigation into U. S. bishops’ abuse of federal funds, particularly in aiding the Invasion and human trafficking. The letter gives McElroy quite a mention, noting his failures in dealing with sexual abuse and his being “the poster boy for Church advocacy of open borders.”
I encourage Roman Catholics to consider co-signing.
Jules Gomes has also posted on the letter with some background.
Lord have mercy.....
Actually, yes, we do.