‘Many participants expressed the view that Church doctrine is quite clear on debated issues, but the Church’s current leadership has intentionally obscured that teaching on LGBT issues,’ the San Diego diocese’s synodal synthesis acknowledged.
The elevation of McElroy over his metropolitan archbishop, Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez, represents a ‘wrong understanding of the Catholic Church in America,’ the cardinal said.
The Pope skipped over higher ranking prelates in the U.S. in appointing Bishop Robert McElroy to the College of Cardinals, despite the bishop's record of support for giving Communion to both pro-abortion Catholic politicians as well as the divorced and 'remarried.'
The act of enforcing Canon 915 is supposed to be directly followed by Canon 916, which results in the politician making a good confession, for the point of saving their soul. This is the whole point.
The growing list of often dissident US bishops pushing back on exemptions for vaccine mandates includes Cardinal Blase Cupich and Archbishop José Gomez.