Pope Francis taps Cardinal McElroy as Washington's new archbishop

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Pope Francis has tapped Cardinal Robert McElroy as the new archbishop of Washington, D.C., appointing one of his top U.S. allies, one of the American church's most forceful defenders of migrants and a sharp critic of Donald Trump's first administration just days before Trump takes office a second time.
34% : The pope's selection of a prelate who has not shied from implicit criticism of Trump comes just after Trump announced his selection of a sharp critic of Francis to be the U.S. ambassador to the Holy See -- which also marks a contrast to the warm relations the pontiff has enjoyed with President Joe Biden, who is set to visit Francis on Friday (Jan. 10) at the Vatican.McElroy, 70, was first made an auxiliary bishop of San Francisco in 2010 by Pope Benedict XVI and then named bishop of San Diego by Francis in 2015.

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