Bishop Robert J. McElroy Archives

2 Catholic bishops at odds over Biden receiving Communion

May 9, 2021

They share Catholicism as a faith and California as their home base. Yet there’s a deep gulf between Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco and Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego in the high-stakes debate over whether politicians who support abortion rights should be denied Communion.

By David Crary

San Diego bishop: Don’t weaponize the Eucharist for political ends

May 6, 2021

“The Eucharist must never be instrumentalized for a political end, no matter how important,” said Bishop Robert W. McElroy of San Diego in a May 5 essay published on the website of America magazine, the Jesuit journal.

By Mark Pattison

Church leaders from U.S., Amazon ask governments to protect rainforest

Apr 17, 2021

Less than a week before the U.S.-sponsored Leaders Summit on Climate, environmental and religious leaders said they are worried about talks on how to preserve the region and are asking government officials from the U.S. and the Amazon to look at kindly at the rainforest and its peoples.

By Lise Alves

Border priest says migrant children need protection, assistance

Apr 14, 2021

When the priest of the lone Catholic parish in the U.S.-Mexico border city of Donna, Texas, considers the present situation at the border, his first concern is for the unaccompanied minors trying to gain entry to the United States.

By John Lavenburg

L.A.’s virtual congress offers participants ‘hope, vision’ for the future

Feb 24, 2021

For Jesus’ parents, “answering God’s call meant their whole lives were turned upside down,” not unlike the events of the past year, Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez said Feb. 21 at the close of the all-virtual 2021 Religious Education Congress.

By Tom Hoffarth

On President Biden, bishop warns against ‘weaponization of Eucharist’

Feb 2, 2021

For Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego, the way U.S. bishops should approach President Joe Biden and important issues can in part be answered through a question his mother used to ask: “what would Jesus do?”

By John Lavenburg

Bishops remind Catholics to approach elections with well-formed conscience

Oct 16, 2020

The Catholic voter “bears responsibility for connecting the dots between what our faith teaches and which candidates will best serve the common good,” Bishop W. Shawn McKnight of Jefferson City.

By Catholic News Service

Prayer vigils, protests, bishops’ homilies echo call for racial justice

Jun 9, 2020

Bishops called for Americans to celebrate the country’s diversity, prayed the deep sin of racism can be overcome and invited people to remember that each person is a unique creation of God in Trinity Sunday homilies, messages and events.

By Catholic News Service