Washington DC Cardinal McElroy Creates Confusion Over Immigration, by Anne Hendershott

The newly appointed Catholic Archbishop of Washington, D.C., Cardinal Robert McElroy, has been one of President Trump’s harshest critics. On Feb. 9, 2025, during a prayer service for immigrants at San Diego’s St. Joseph’s Cathedral, the Cardinal described the Trump administration’s attempts to deport criminal immigrants as waging a “war of fear and terror.”

Delivering his angry remarks the week before he was to begin his papal assignment in Washington, D.C., Cardinal McElroy has taken every opportunity to condemn the Trump administration for what he called the “massive and indiscriminate deportation” of immigrants. Demanding that those in attendance tell the Trump administration to “Go no further” in what he has described as an “indiscriminate campaign to bring fear into the hearts of every undocumented person, man, woman, mother, child, family in our society,” the Cardinal called on all Catholics to organize against the deportation policies of the current administration. …

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