San Diego, CA
San Diego Cardinal-to-Be: No American Should be Elected Pope, Including Himself
Underneath the quiet shade of a magnolia tree, Bishop Robert McElroy advised of the flood of texts that awoke him at 3:30 a.m. Sunday.
The religious chief of San Diego and Imperial County Roman Catholics on Tuesday stated he noticed solely titles: congratulations, congratulations, congratulations.
“Congratulations on what?” McElroy thought.
It was information that Pope Francis had named him to the Sacred School of Cardinals — the one lively American west of Houston. Francis wished to have a cardinal on the West Coast, McElroy advised.
Now addressed as cardinal-elect, McElroy, 68, was requested if he stated slightly prayer.
No, an enormous one, he replied — “a number of prayers as a result of I used to be shocked and so shocked by this. Prayer of thanksgiving.”
However as a 25-minute press convention wrapped up on the diocesan Pastoral Middle in Bay Park, McElroy was requested in regards to the prospect of his changing into pope.
He replied in a blink.
“I don’t assume an American needs to be pope,” he advised a group of TV crews.
The US has a lot energy “in so many ranges,” he stated, that having an American pope can be a “counterpoint to the witness that the church has to proceed to be giving.”
He added: “I might oppose any American being elected pope” regardless that he didn’t assume it might ever be within the playing cards.
On international journeys, he stated, “you see all of those totally different views, and the world seems fairly totally different from our reference factors. That doesn’t imply our reference factors are improper. However it means these wider views should be added to it.”
McElroy parried queries on critical points — the priest-abuse scandal, his protection of giving communion to politicians who assist abortion rights and whether or not married males, and even ladies, needs to be allowed to turn out to be ordained clergymen.
And in addition some much less critical: How properly did he converse Italian? Did he return to sleep after the early morning texts?
(He stated he studied Italian extra 30 years whereas finding out for a doctorate in ethical theology from Pontifical Gregorian College in Rome. “I can use it a bit once I’m over there, however I’m actually removed from fluent.” And no — he didn’t return to sleep. He was beneath strain to launch a response assertion.)
McElroy additionally gave an replace on his well being within the wake of four-way bypass coronary heart surgical procedure in November, revealing he was handled at Scripps Mercy Hospital.
His chest was opened, he stated, not due to a coronary heart assault “episode” however as a result of fluid was present in his lung — and 4 blocked arteries.
He stated he was “shocked” at having no issues. He felt “no ache” afterward, a relative rarity, his medical doctors stated.
On what he known as “the abuse disaster” — a serious situation amongst 8,000 attending church “listening classes” with him in late 2018 — he stated: “Clearly folks had been indignant about the way it was dealt with.”
He supplied Tuesday: “We will’t change it by placing it behind us. We have to at all times keep in mind what occurred, and the way we received into a really unhealthy sample.”
The most important disgrace wasn’t the actual fact particular person clergymen abused minors — “all teams in society (endure) that,” he stated.
“The nice drawback within the church was once they received reassigned after it was recognized they’d abused,” he stated. “That was a horrible, sinful sample within the lifetime of the church.”
McElroy once more decried the communion ban on abortion-rights supporting leaders like Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was first hit by Salvatore Cordileone, the Catholic archbishop of San Francisco (and former San Diego prelate), after which in different dioceses.
He stated he wrote his first article on the difficulty in 2004 when Catholic John Kerry was operating for president.
He stated it was “damaging” to forbid political leaders from receiving communion based mostly on their actions in public coverage.
“Partly as a result of it diminished the eucharist, for my part,” he stated. “It contributes towards the weaponization of the eucharist. And much more so, it contributes towards the elevated partisanship inside our society.”
He bemoaned a deep division “seeping into the lifetime of the church. That’s an awesome tragedy. So it’s vital that we not go in that route.”
In 2019, as the one North American attending a gathering of Amazon Basin bishops at a Vatican synod, McElroy heard how some areas of 9 international locations may supply Mass solely yearly — a “radical scarcity” of clergymen, he stated.
So by a two-thirds vote, he stated, options had been proposed — together with ordaining choose married males as clergymen and permitting ladies to turn out to be deacons — one step beneath the priesthood.
“No less than these are stay points now,” stated McElroy, who will obtain his crimson cardinal cap Aug. 27 at St. Peter’s in Rome.
(Southern California, particularly within the Hispanic-heavy areas of San Diego, aren’t hurting a lot for clergymen, he stated, however a youth outreach technique devised earlier than the pandemic nonetheless must be rolled out.)
In a slender courtyard, McElroy stood solely toes away from the statute of Saint Martin de Porres — apt for a pandemic period press convention.
Born in Peru within the 1570s — the illegitimate son to a Spaniard and a freed slave from Panama — Martin grew to become the patron saint of individuals of blended race, innkeepers, barbers and public well being employees.
“Throughout an epidemic in Lima, lots of the friars within the Convent of the Rosary grew to become very sick,” stated one biography. “Locked away in a distant part of the convent, they had been refrained from the professed. Nonetheless, on a couple of event, Martin handed by the locked doorways to look after the sick.”
Like Martin, McElroy attends to his flock. He recounted his comparatively mundane schedule Sunday after being elevated to the heights of the Catholic Church.
After speaking congratulatory calls from long-ago folks in his life, together with highschool classmates and Stanford roommates, McElroy returned to the enterprise of a bishop.
He attended a ten:30 a.m. affirmation at St. Thomas Extra Church in Oceanside and later drove to Brawley for a affirmation there at 6 p.m.
He hasn’t spoken with Pope Francis for the reason that information.
“It will not be a traditional factor to talk to the pope,” stated McElroy, stressing his pleasure about with the ability to keep in San Diego.
“That delights me,” he stated.
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) – As the Los Angeles wildfires displace thousands of residents, San Diego hotels open their doors to help, offering discounted rates.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office confirmed with ABC 10News that 180-thousand residents have been displaced by the wildfires as of Thursday morning.
With that, San Diego’s hotel industry is responding to the call for help, welcoming any evacuees from LA who are seeking shelter.
One of those hotels is Omni San Diego.
Charles Cho, General Manager of Omni San Diego, said he put out a rate for Los Angeles evacuees that is substantially below their normal rates.
“We just want to make sure we share our rooms, since we have them, with those who need them the most,” Cho said. “There’s still a lot of hotels in between us and where the fire is, but hey, if they’re willing to come down here, we’re ready for them.”
Cho said as soon as he heard about the wildfires, he checked Omni’s occupancy to see what they could offer.
As of Thursday, Omni is already helping one evacuee.
“Hospitality really is all about making friends, and it’s about building relationships,” Cho said.
Cho is not alone in his intentions to help LA residents.
According to the San Diego Tourism Authority, more than two dozen hotels across San Diego came together on Thursday to offer assistance to Los Angeles evacuees, and both the Tourism Authority and San Diego Lodging Association put the list of hotels together and published it online.
Fred Tayco, Executive Director of the San Diego Lodging Association, said, “We very quickly got the impression that the news was paling in comparison to what they were seeing on the ground. If you are evacuating and you are negatively impacted, the doors are open. “
Kerri Kapich, Chief Operating Officer at the San Diego Tourism Authority, said all the hotels will be offering their own special rates. The rates will all expire at different times.
“There are discounts in terms of no parking fees, resort fees for pets, and other things like that,” Kasich said. “At the end of the day, we’re here to help. LA is our neighbor. They’re our friends, our family. We just want to do everything that we can during this heartbreaking time.”
To see the list of San Diego hotels offering assistance to LA wildfire victims, visit The San Diego Tourism Authority website or The San Diego Lodging Association’s website.
As evacuees from the Los Angeles fires search frantically for temporary lodging, many of them are reaching out to San Diego County hotels, which have mobilized to provide deeply discounted room rates.
The San Diego Tourism Authority, in tandem with the local lodging association, has created a web page with a growing list of discounted accommodations, from the Bahia Resort Hotel and Catamaran to the Rancho Bernardo Inn and La Jolla Shores Hotel.
San Diego-based Evans Hotels, which has properties in the Mission Bay area and La Jolla, already has about two dozen bookings from L.A. residents forced to leave their homes following multiple firestorms in Pacific Palisades, Malibu and Altadena. Many simply want to get away from the smoke and fire blanketing Los Angeles right now, said Robert Gleason, CEO of Evans Hotels, which operates the Bahia and Catamaran resorts, in addition to the Lodge at Torrey Pines.
According to the lastest estimates from fire officials, there are more than 9,000 homes, businesses and other structures that have been destroyed by the Palisades and Eaton fires burning across Pacific Palisades and Altadena, which is near Pasadena.
Gleason said that at the Bahia and Catamaran hotels, Evans Hotels is offering 25% off standard room rates, 40% off suites, and a waiver of resort, parking and pet fees.
“We started getting calls first thing yesterday morning from evacuees, trying to book a reservation because hotels in L.A. were filling up pretty quickly,” Gleason said Thursday. “The reality is that none of the guests staying with us really want to be with us but are here out of necessity.
“We had a call with the executive committee of the San Diego County Lodging Association this morning, and everyone is trying to do whatever they can. In the lodging business we get to participate in really joyous times for people and also in times of great stress and challenge for people. We see both extremes.”
The Tourism Authority has assembled a list of offers that is being continually updated on a website it created related to fire relief. Among the more generous discounts is 50% off at the Park Hyatt Aviara Resort in Carlsbad; a $99 daily rate at Humphreys Half Moon Inn on Shelter Island; and 50% off available rates at the La Jolla Shores Hotel and La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club. Expiration dates vary from property to property.
“We were monitoring conditions in San Diego to see if we would have any challenges here, but so far conditions look good,” said Kerri Kapich, chief operating officer for the Tourism Authority. “We had heard from a few hotels along the beach areas that they had calls from L.A. residents, and then thought we’re in a situation where we can reach out to our membership and other hotels in the community to see if they’d like to put offers out there. It’s gratifying to see hotels are doing that.”
In addition to local hotel discounts, Airbnb also has announced that it, too, is reaching out to those made homeless by the Los Angeles wildfires. It is offering free, temporary housing via a partnership with 211 LA to connect with those impacted by the fires.
San Diego, CA
Mountain West men’s basketball power rankings: Utah State, San Diego State, Boise State lead the way
In what will be the biggest day of the Mountain West men’s basketball season to date, Saturday looms large for all six of the conference’s top contenders.
The action-packed day begins with New Mexico (13-3, 5-0) hosting San Diego State (10-3, 3-1) at 11 a.m. Mountain time. UNLV (9-6, 3-1) and Colorado State (9-6, 3-1) will meet in Fort Collins at 2 p.m. with Boise State (12-4, 4-1) and No. 25 Utah State (15-1, 5-0) closing the night at Dee Glen Smith Spectrum.
In the latest NCAA Tournament projection from ESPN’s Joe Lunardi, the MWC remained a two-bid league with Utah State (seven seed) and San Diego State (eight seed) earning spots. New Mexico was listed among Lunardi’s first eight out.
Here is a look at our midseason Mountain West power rankings.
Last result: 85-78 win at San Jose State (Tuesday)
Season record: 15-1, 5-0
Analysis: Utah State finally cracked the AP top 25 in the latest poll. Other than a 75-73 loss to Big West-leading UC San Diego, the Aggies have been perfect this season under first-year head coach Jared Calhoun.
Up next: Saturday vs. Boise State, 7 p.m., CBS Sports Network
Last result: 67-38 home win over Air Force (Wednesday)
Season record: 10-3, 3-1
Analysis: The Aztecs held a seven-point lead over Utah State with 90 seconds remaining before losing on a late Tucker Anderson 3-pointer. San Diego State has bounced back nicely with convincing wins over Boise State and Air Force.
Up next: Saturday at New Mexico, 11 a.m., CBS
Last result: 81-59 home win over UNLV (Tuesday)
Season record: 12-4, 4-1
Analysis: Boise State played arguably its best game of the season against UNLV, shutting down Dedan Thomas Jr. while getting strong offensive contributions from seven different players. When the Broncos’ offense is clicking, few MWC teams can match their firepower.
Up next: Saturday at Utah State, 7 p.m., CBS Sports Network
Last result: 61-53 win at Wyoming (Tuesday)
Season record: 13-3, 5-0
Analysis: Despite a strong body of work, the Lobos sit way down at No. 67 in the NET Rankings. A victory over San Diego State would provide a major boost to New Mexico’s NCAA Tournament resume.
Up next: Saturday vs. San Diego State, 11 a.m., CBS
Last result: 91-64 home win over Fresno State (Tuesday)
Season record: 9-6, 3-1
Analysis: The Rams have feasted on the bottom of the conference with victories over winless Fresno State, Nevada and San Jose State. Senior swingman Nique Clifford remains one of the MWC’s top players and is averaging a double-double at 16.6 points, 10.3 rebounds and 3.4 assists.
Up next: Saturday vs. UNLV, 2 p.m., Mountain West Network
Last result: 81-59 loss at Boise State (Tuesday)
Season record: 9-6, 3-1
Analysis: UNLV took a step back Tuesday in a non-competitive loss at Boise State. The Rebels have one of the conference’s best players in Dedan Thomas Jr., but the sophomore point guard needs more help.
Up next: Saturday at Colorado State, 2 p.m., Mountain West Network
Last result: 82-81 overtime loss at New Mexico (Jan. 4)
Season record: 8-7, 0-4
Analysis: It’s been a nightmare start to MWC play for the Wolf Pack, who have lost their four conference games by 11 combined points. With upcoming games against Fresno State, Air Force and San Jose State, Nevada has a chance to get its season back on track.
Up next: Saturday at Fresno State, 5 p.m., Mountain West Network
Last result: 61-53 home loss to New Mexico (Tuesday)
Season record: 9-7, 2-3
Analysis: The Cowboys were outscored 43-21 after halftime in Tuesday’s loss to New Mexico. Wyoming does hold a three-point win over Nevada, but the Cowboys are staring at a tough upcoming schedule with a home game against Colorado State sandwiched between road trips to Boise and Las Vegas.
Up next: Jan. 14 at Boise State, 7 p.m., Mountain West Network
Last result: 85-78 home loss to Utah State
Season record: 7-10, 0-5
Analysis: Unlike the MWC’s bottom two teams, the Spartans have been quite competitive this season with single-digit losses to New Mexico, Boise State, UNLV and Utah State. Senior guard Josh Uduj, a Utah State transfer, is averaging 16.8 points per game for San Jose State.
Up next: Saturday at Air Force, 1 p.m., Mountain West Network
Last result: 91-64 loss at Colorado State (Tuesday)
Season record: 4-12, 0-5
Analysis: The Bulldogs have dropped 10 of their last 11 games following a 3-2 start to the season. First-year head coach Vance Walberg has his work cut out for him.
Up next: Saturday host Nevada, 5 p.m., Mountain West Network
Last result: 67-38 loss at San Diego State (Tuesday)
Season record: 3-12, 0-4
Analysis: Air Force was the victim of a 44-4 scoring run during Tuesday’s loss. That is … not good.
Up next: Saturday vs. San Jose State, 1 p.m., Mountain West Network
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