Pope Francis has named Cardinal Robert McElroy, bishop of San Diego, “to be the next Roman Catholic archbishop of Washington, moving one of his most vocal allies on immigration to one of the most prominent posts in the American church,” the New York Times reported on January 6.
Speaking at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, McElroy said, “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 Immigration and Refugee News Digest 