CALIFORNIA
U-T San Diego
By Peter Rowe.APRIL 14, 2015
During a 1 p.m. Mass at St. Thérèse of Carmel Catholic Church Wednesday, a large and leaderless flock will acquire a new shepherd.
Robert W. McElroy, 61, will become the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego’s new bishop. The diocese, embracing nearly 1 million people across San Diego and Imperial counties, had been without a bishop for seven months. McElroy’s predecessor, Bishop Cirilo Flores, succumbed to cancer last September, less than two years after assuming the post. …
Calling the sexual abuse scandal “the great tragedy of the church in the last 50 years,” he said he would remove from ministry or diocesan office anyone who has abused minors.
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