By John Zmirak, The Stream, January 9, 2025
John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.
Pope Francis has just flipped the bird in every American’s face. And reports suggest that he did so as part of a hissy fit over Donald Trump choosing a faithful Catholic and conservative as ambassador to the Vatican.
As The Stream has already reported, the newly appointed Archbishop of Washington, Robert McElroy, is not just a radical leftist who works with George Soros-funded Marxist organizations. And he’s not just one of the most disgraced prelates in the U.S. on the issue of sex abuse, which he covered up and minimized, including the sexual predation of accused child rapist ex-cardinal Ted McCarrick.
McElroy is also a leftist politician. Immediately after his appointment, McElroy started fear-mongering and lying about Trump’s plans to deport the 10 million-plus illegal aliens waved or smuggled into the U.S. under the Biden administration. McElroy is falsely claiming that Catholics must oppose any deportations — citing the recent, deranged Vatican document that claims any deportation of anyone from any country is evil, on par with slavery and forced prostitution. (By that standard, Nazi war criminals and narco-terrorists should never have been sent back home to face justice.) ….
