Cardinal Robert McElroy, the Archbishop of Washington, has strongly criticized the Trump administration’s immigration ...

In an exclusive interview with CNN, Washington Cardinal Robert W. McElroy again strongly criticized the Trump ...

In 2020, Francis elevated him to the College of Cardinals, making him the first Black U.S. cardinal. Over the last decade, McElroy has frequently echoed the pope’s prioritization of migrants and ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) — Washington’s new archbishop, Cardinal Robert McElroy, encouraged Catholics at his installation Mass on Tuesday (March 11) to have hope and show mercy in a service that ...

Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego, who was named in January as the archbishop of Washington, D.C. by Pope Francis, speaks during a news conference Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025, in San Diego.

At Mira Mesa on Saturday, May 27, 2023, Cardinal Robert W. McElroy watched as the Catholic Communities from San Diego processioned during the celebration of the San Diego Diocese’s sixth annual ...

McElroy, 70, replaces the retiring Cardinal Wilton Gregory, who steps down after having navigated the archdiocese through the fallout of the 2018 eruption of the clergy sexual abuse crisis.

Pope Francis on Monday named Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego as the archbishop of Washington, tapping one of his most progressively like-minded allies to head the Catholic Church in the U.S ...