America's next cardinal: Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego 👇 www.romereports.com/en/2022/08/26/americas-next-cardinal-bishop-robert-mcelroy-of-san-diego/
“Out of 20, only 1 from the US”. Hello?? Did you really mean that? This is my frustration to the Vatican, Philippines has one of the highest number of Catholics in the world, one of the most devoted catholic nation in the world. Yet, there are only 2 cardinals who can join the conclave, and 2 who are retired. Unfair! Philippines deserves more recognition and appreciation. It is basically the heart and soul of Asia’s Catholicism!
Pope Francis hasn’t chosen Archbishop Gomez as Cardinal, blame Gomez, says an article in the LA Times by Mr. Arellano. Well simply, perhaps the needs of the global church has changed. The successor of Saint Peter and the Vicar of Christ is Jesuit and progressive. It does not make him holy and nor does the conformity of the Church to present ambient society compatible with the teachings of Christ. Being a cardinal is an esteemed position in fact but many fell from grace. When they fall, they fall flat on their faces on the ground. In Los Angeles, Cardinal Mahoney and the archdiocese was held responsible to pay millions because of maliciously concealing criminal acts by errant priests. Innocent religious orders were forced to chip in the money for this payment even to the extent of evicting elderly nuns so the diocese can sell off the property to add in the payment coffers. What about the grandeur of the LA Cathedral? The Cardinal cannot be satisfied with a simpler version I guess and that is not the lifestyle of the Christ that I come to know.
“Out of 20, only 1 from the US”. Hello?? Did you really mean that? This is my frustration to the Vatican, Philippines has one of the highest number of Catholics in the world, one of the most devoted catholic nation in the world. Yet, there are only 2 cardinals who can join the conclave, and 2 who are retired. Unfair! Philippines deserves more recognition and appreciation. It is basically the heart and soul of Asia’s Catholicism!
In 2018 i had the great opportunity to meet now cardinal McIlroy for an event for rcia. He saw my knights of Columbus badge and asked me what degree I was and told him I had just became a 4th degree the previous evening. He told me how much the knights mean to him and to see a young person lead the way was heartwarming to him. He gave me some very good advice and gave me a hearty handshake. In 2019, we met up again at the California state convention where he celebrated opening mass and we talked a bit more and I told him what lay ahead for my family and he was sad to see me go but at the time he was happy because he knew that the knights where I went were going to be getting a very wonderful hard working man. He gave me a wonderful blessing and we shook hands one last time and he said “wherever life takes you know that your mark on San Diego has been left. May god bless all your future endeavors.” Cardinal, thank you and may god keep you safe and may all your future endeavors be fruitful. Vivat Jesus
It is sad that via his avowed policy of picking cardinals from the “peripheries”, Pope Francis is showing his bias vs conservatives and basically distorting the hierarchy. By making the bishop of San Diego, who’s reluctant to go along with the episcopal conference headed by Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez in denying communion to pro-abortion US high officials, Pope Francis has basically sided with the bishop and humiliated Gomez. To add insult to injury, since San Diego is a suffragan of Los Angeles, and McElroy is now a cardinal, and Gomez has not been made one by PF because ostensibly he prefers the “peripheries,” the Pope has distorted the traditional hierarchy of the Church and made Gomez subordinate to McElroy. The Pope should likewise explain why San Diego, California, a very rich diocese in the world’s No. 1 superpower, should be considered periphery in the league of other churches whose leaders he’s made cardinals, such as Mongolia, Cotabato (Philippines), Brunei, etc. He’s also made a cardinal of Archbishop Gregory, who’s invited the unrepentantly pro-abortion House Speaker Pelosi to his cathedral in Washington, the capital of the world’s foremost superpower; not by any degree could that church be in the “periphery”. Of course the Pope could say that Gregory was made a cardinal as the Church’s way of reaching out to the African minorities, but what about Gomez, who’s ethnically Spanish-American, and retired Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput, who’s native American?
@@NoelMeza3 San Diego is a mere suffragan to the LA Archdiocese. By making the bishop of SD a cardinal he becomes equal or even above the Archbishop of LA.
@Matt Stewart Only the Pope surely knows what his motives are, but his public acts surely are open for evaluation and even criticism by Catholics. I am a Catholic who’s questioning the rectitude of the Pope’s act in not appointing as cardinals those bishops who head impt sees for the reason that he wants ostensibly to appoint those in the peripheries. Surely San Diego and Washington are not “peripheries” by any stretch of the imagination. He’s appointing their heads as cardinals because their liberal progressive and even heterodox ideas conform with his. And he appoints them even if such would go against the standard Church practice of appointing heads of historically impt sees as cardinals. In short his appointments are capricious, self-serving and ultimately ultramontane.
America's next cardinal: Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego
👇
www.romereports.com/en/2022/08/26/americas-next-cardinal-bishop-robert-mcelroy-of-san-diego/
“Out of 20, only 1 from the US”.
Hello?? Did you really mean that?
This is my frustration to the Vatican, Philippines has one of the highest number of Catholics in the world, one of the most devoted catholic nation in the world. Yet, there are only 2 cardinals who can join the conclave, and 2 who are retired.
Unfair! Philippines deserves more recognition and appreciation. It is basically the heart and soul of Asia’s Catholicism!
This man ain’t Catholic
One of the worst bishops ever
Bedankt
Pope Francis is Choosing Cardinal Dolan for the next Pope
Pope Francis hasn’t chosen Archbishop Gomez as Cardinal, blame Gomez, says an article in the LA Times by Mr. Arellano. Well simply, perhaps the needs of the global church has changed. The successor of Saint Peter and the Vicar of Christ is Jesuit and progressive. It does not make him holy and nor does the conformity of the Church to present ambient society compatible with the teachings of Christ. Being a cardinal is an esteemed position in fact but many fell from grace. When they fall, they fall flat on their faces on the ground. In Los Angeles, Cardinal Mahoney and the archdiocese was held responsible to pay millions because of maliciously concealing criminal acts by errant priests. Innocent religious orders were forced to chip in the money for this payment even to the extent of evicting elderly nuns so the diocese can sell off the property to add in the payment coffers. What about the grandeur of the LA Cathedral? The Cardinal cannot be satisfied with a simpler version I guess and that is not the lifestyle of the Christ that I come to know.
“Out of 20, only 1 from the US”.
Hello?? Did you really mean that?
This is my frustration to the Vatican, Philippines has one of the highest number of Catholics in the world, one of the most devoted catholic nation in the world. Yet, there are only 2 cardinals who can join the conclave, and 2 who are retired.
Unfair! Philippines deserves more recognition and appreciation. It is basically the heart and soul of Asia’s Catholicism!
In 2018 i had the great opportunity to meet now cardinal McIlroy for an event for rcia. He saw my knights of Columbus badge and asked me what degree I was and told him I had just became a 4th degree the previous evening. He told me how much the knights mean to him and to see a young person lead the way was heartwarming to him. He gave me some very good advice and gave me a hearty handshake. In 2019, we met up again at the California state convention where he celebrated opening mass and we talked a bit more and I told him what lay ahead for my family and he was sad to see me go but at the time he was happy because he knew that the knights where I went were going to be getting a very wonderful hard working man. He gave me a wonderful blessing and we shook hands one last time and he said “wherever life takes you know that your mark on San Diego has been left. May god bless all your future endeavors.”
Cardinal, thank you and may god keep you safe and may all your future endeavors be fruitful. Vivat Jesus
🙏🙏🙏🙏
Yet another liberal
@Matt Stewart Not meaningless, is it. You know what it means.
@Matt Stewart Then it's your ignorance not my lack of clarity. I can see other people on here have understood me perfectly well.
@Matt Stewart Liberal Catholics are the worst enemies of the Church and not Catholic
It is sad that via his avowed policy of picking cardinals from the “peripheries”, Pope Francis is showing his bias vs conservatives and basically distorting the hierarchy. By making the bishop of San Diego, who’s reluctant to go along with the episcopal conference headed by Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez in denying communion to pro-abortion US high officials, Pope Francis has basically sided with the bishop and humiliated Gomez. To add insult to injury, since San Diego is a suffragan of Los Angeles, and McElroy is now a cardinal, and Gomez has not been made one by PF because ostensibly he prefers the “peripheries,” the Pope has distorted the traditional hierarchy of the Church and made Gomez subordinate to McElroy. The Pope should likewise explain why San Diego, California, a very rich diocese in the world’s No. 1 superpower, should be considered periphery in the league of other churches whose leaders he’s made cardinals, such as Mongolia, Cotabato (Philippines), Brunei, etc. He’s also made a cardinal of Archbishop Gregory, who’s invited the unrepentantly pro-abortion House Speaker Pelosi to his cathedral in Washington, the capital of the world’s foremost superpower; not by any degree could that church be in the “periphery”. Of course the Pope could say that Gregory was made a cardinal as the Church’s way of reaching out to the African minorities, but what about Gomez, who’s ethnically Spanish-American, and retired Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput, who’s native American?
What do you mean that Gomez "subordinate" to McElroy?
@@NoelMeza3 San Diego is a mere suffragan to the LA Archdiocese. By making the bishop of SD a cardinal he becomes equal or even above the Archbishop of LA.
@Matt Stewart Only the Pope surely knows what his motives are, but his public acts surely are open for evaluation and even criticism by Catholics. I am a Catholic who’s questioning the rectitude of the Pope’s act in not appointing as cardinals those bishops who head impt sees for the reason that he wants ostensibly to appoint those in the peripheries. Surely San Diego and Washington are not “peripheries” by any stretch of the imagination. He’s appointing their heads as cardinals because their liberal progressive and even heterodox ideas conform with his. And he appoints them even if such would go against the standard Church practice of appointing heads of historically impt sees as cardinals. In short his appointments are capricious, self-serving and ultimately ultramontane.
Congratulations Bishop.
The next Pope!
God help us