Some were a little concerned that we'd criticized the Papal Nuncio a little while back when he was accused of insulting an eccentric retiree in front the Nunciature in Washington D.C.. Well, it gets easier to believe that this is the kind of man you're dealing with when he gives us a snake of an appointment like this. The new auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco is most certainly the kind of man we don't need, since he's unwilling to make a stand against public sin and scandal. It's understandable that such a man would be appointed however, since the Nuncio, who has had problems with giving communion to pro-abort politicians himself, is just as eager to play ball with the powers and principalities as is he.
Is it too much to ask that we get real Bishops and not these feted administrative drones?
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for his sheep. But the hireling, and he that is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and flieth: and the wolf catcheth, and scattereth the sheep: And the hireling flieth, because he is a hireling: and he hath no care for the sheep. I am the good shepherd; and I know mine, and mine know me. 15 As the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father: and I lay down my life for my sheep.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The newly-appointed auxiliary bishop of San Francisco has in the past criticized Catholic Church policy disallowing politicians who promote abortion from receiving Holy Communion, saying that such a move would make the Church appear too "partisan," "Republican" and "coercive."
Msgr. Robert McElroy made the statements in a 2005 column for America magazine, in which he criticized Newark Archbishop John Myers for maintaining the policy against public figures who promote the murder of unborn children. Canon 915 of the Church's Code of Canon Law states that "those who have been excommunicated ... and others obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to Holy Communion."
The Vatican on Tuesday appointed McElroy to the San Francisco diocese, where he currently serves as a priest.
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