...Oh, noze! Not him!...
, Pope Francis
...Argentine liberation theologist, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He was elected pope in 2013. Rather than setting up shop in Avignon, where he belongs, the first Jesuit Pope chose to reside in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse instead of the papal apartments. That was to show how humble he is. He is big on climate change, against consumerism, and in favor of throwing a blanket over homosexual activity within the clergy. He's not real sure about the Resurrection, about Christ's divinity, and a few other things that would have gotten him burned at the stake a few hundred years ago, but he's hot for a certain South American Earth Mother Goddess...
announced Monday that left-wing Cardinal Robert McElroy of the Diocese of San Diego would be the next archbishop of Washington.
McElroy, 70, will succeed the retiring archbishop, Cardinal Wilton Gregory, 77, who shepherded the more than 600,000 Catholics who live in the nation's capital region.
Gregory has not been afraid to oppose
The Archdiocese of Washington is known for its influence not only in the halls of Congress, the White House, and the Supreme Court, but also on young people through Catholic schools and universities within its jurisdiction.
The pope's pick for Gregory's successor is well-known for his advocacy on issues as wide-ranging as admitting women to the diaconate to allowing even those in grave sin to receive Communion, and it has garnered him no shortage of critics among his fellow priests.
But observers of the Catholic Church were quick to note that the position McElroy holds that will most put him at variance with the soon-to-be new occupant of the White House is illegal immigration.
McElroy did not shy away from the topic at the presser announcing his appointment.
''The Catholic Church teaches that a nation has the right to control its borders, and our nation's desire to do that is a legitimate effort. At the same time, we are called always to have a sense of the dignity of every human person. And thus, plans that have been talked about at some levels of having a wider, indiscriminate, massive deportation across the country would be something that would be incompatible with Catholic doctrine,'' the cardinal argued.
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[PJ] It is most certainly not against Catholic doctrine to deport large numbers of illegal aliens. In fact, governments have a moral duty to protect their people and enforce the law. But if some leftist Catholic bishops are worried about a crackdown on illegal migration, what they are really worried about is the prospect of losing huge amounts of government funding.
There is often confusion about what actually constitutes Catholic doctrine, and it is a fact that doctrinal pronouncements have to meet certain standards in canon law, which papal or episcopal pronouncements on illegal migration do not meet. But some Catholic bishops and organizations want that confusion to continue, including the new, pro-pedophile cardinal of D.C., because the United States government pours funding into Catholic organizations and dioceses that help resettle illegal aliens. That’s an uncomfortable truth that former papal nuncio Archb. Carlo Maria Viganò wants Americans to understand.
Responding to Washington, D.C. Cardinal Robert McElroy, who claims Catholic doctrine condemns mass deportations, Viganò posted, "The ’mass deportation’ of illegal immigrants is a decision that the State can legitimately take, and this is a principle dictated by Natural Law even before positive civil law or Canon Law."
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