Washington, D.C. is about to receive a new archbishop: a staunch opponent of incoming President Donald Trump and a champion of dissident LGBT causes. The Vatican announced last week that Cardinal Robert McElroy, currently the bishop of San Diego, would be replacing 77-year-old Cardinal Wilton Gregory as the archbishop of Washington. While the Vatican’s announcement glossed McElroy’s educational history and the various parochial and diocesan positions he has held, it did not address his radical left-wing activism and ideology.

Abortion and the Blessed Sacrament
First and foremost, McElroy has openly advocated for giving Holy Communion — the Blessed Sacrament which the Catholic Church declares to be the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Christ Himself — to pro-abortion politicians. In 2021, shortly after self-declared Catholic Joe Biden ascended to the presidency, U.S. Catholic bishops debated whether or not to issue a formal document barring pro-abortion politicians from receiving Holy Communion. McElroy was quick to denounce this proposed measure as “very destructive.” He stated, “I do not see how depriving the President or other political leaders of Eucharist based on their public policy stance can be interpreted in our society as anything other than the weaponization of Eucharist.”
Of course, what’s really “destructive” is abortion. The barbaric practice allows for the wanton slaughter of hundreds of thousands — even millions — of unborn children every year in the U.S. alone. The Catholic Church definitively and unequivocally condemns abortion as a grave sin and even imposes the dire penalty of latae sententiae or ipso facto excommunication upon those who procure, commit, or are knowingly complicit in committing abortions. That would apply to pro-abortion politicians. In other words, the Catholic Church teaches authoritatively that politicians who protect and promote abortion have actively killed their own souls — that’s why Catholics call it a mortal sin. The Ch...