Dear Pro-life friends,
Bishop McElroy has postponed the downtown car caravan that was scheduled for 1:00 on January 16 until 1:00 on January 30. Below is his statement.
“With deepest regret we must postpone the car caravan for the March for Life celebration until January 30th at 1:00 p.m.
“Given the violence in Pacific Beach last weekend, I spoke directly with the San Diego Police Department and asked if they could provide assurance that the caravan could proceed this Saturday without complicating efforts to maintain peace there in light of the political demonstrations planned in front of the County Administration Center for this Saturday.
“The Police Department felt that it could not provide such an assurance, and thus out of concern for the caravan participants and a desire not to make the job of our police any harder in these troubling days, I feel we must postpone the event.
“I am so grateful for the tremendous work that the planning committee has done in expanding our March for Life celebrations this year to include webinars, a concert, and three Masses throughout San Diego County, so that even amidst the pandemic we can witness powerfully to the moral and legal rights of unborn children and the suffering of pregnant women in our midst.”
The website will be updated soon. All other events are as originally scheduled.
Click here for the San Diego Walk for Life Web Site
or type into your browser https://sandiegowalkforlife.org/
The above comes from a Jan. 15 email sent by Helpers of God’s Precious Infants.
Bishop McElroy is clearly on the Catholic liberal left. In an effort to paraphrase Pope Francis, he told the Catholic Conference of Bishops in Baltimore that, “It is not Catholic teaching that abortion is the pre-eminent issue that we face in the world of Catholic social teaching”. This statement elicited a terse rebuke by Bishop Joseph Strickland and other bishops in attendance. It is no secret that Bishop McElroy has great fondness for Joe Biden, and I believe that this was an attempt to reduce the gravity of abortion to just another issue among many in an effort to make Joe Biden more palatable to Catholic voters.
If we lived in a moral enlightened time, McElroy would be selling insurance in Stockton
Bishop McElroy is a very well-educated man. I understand [I have never met him]
that he is quite cordial and charming in private encounters. Unfortunately he is
quite clearly very biased, politically. To his credit he doesn’t try to disguise that. Yet
he acts as if his judgment alone must be accepted even in cases which the faith leaves
open to the prudential judgment of informed Catholics acting in good faith. Doesn’t
he understand that this approach closes the ears of faithful Catholics to everything
he says, undermining his credibility as a shepherd and teacher?
Postponement seems like a prudent move given the current political environment.
Cal Catholic please compare your caption of the photo (“antifa members assault”) with that from the original article. Can this forum finally drop the partisan divisions and keep discussion focused on finding ways to live out our faith?
No because those divisions are real in both the society and the Church, the Truth hurts
Kristina, this isn’t a forum. This is the comment section of a Catholic news site. The comments should be about the article.
The decision of the Bishop to postpone the “march” is the subject of this article. His political choices and his position on other issues are not the subject of this article. So let’s talk about the postponement, as mikem did. It is prudent to postpone if there is a chance of violence and lack of police protection. He made a good decision.
It is too easy, to conflate one issue into another. Logic requires that we try to avoid doing that and try to not let our emotions dictate our dictation. I plead guilty as the rest, mea culpa.
There’s always a chance of violence with pro life events…Odds are pretty good in fact…with all do respect to the bishop, he doesn’t hold jurisdiction over the 1st Amendment.