Efforts by some US bishops to exclude Catholic politicians — including President Joe Biden — from receiving Communion has prompted concerns that the Eucharist is being weaponised for political purposes. “The Eucharist must never be instrumentalised for a political end, no matter how important,” said Bishop Robert W. McElroy of San Diego. President Biden was Read more
Single-issue politicking by labeling one issue “preeminent” in this year’s US election has been criticised by San Diego’s Bishop Robert McElroy. Speaking at the University of San Diego this week he said such labeling “distorts the call to authentic discipleship in voting rather than advancing it.” Abortion and the environment are “core life issues in Read more
The “lived reality of men and women and children and families” and their “sufferings and challenges and joys” are at the center of “a moment of explicit theological renewal that will contribute enormously to the spread of the Gospel in this new millennium,” said San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy (pictured) in a June 26 keynote Read more