San Diego's Catholic bishop urges citizens to be 'disruptors' and 'rebuilders' in Trump era

February 21, 2017, 5:00 pm
By Peter Rowe

Even before the White House announced stricter immigration policies Tuesday, there were signs of opposition. Addressing people “of all faiths and no faith,” San Diego’s Roman Catholic bishop on Saturday urged Americans to be “disruptors” and “rebuilders.”

Donald Trump, Bishop Robert McElroy noted, had campaigned for the presidency as “the disruptor.”

“Well now,” McElroy told almost 700 community organizers and social justice advocates meeting in Modesto on the weekend that “we must all become disruptors.”

Originally reported by The National Catholic Reporter, the speech made waves. A Breitbart correspondent wrote that McElroy “attacked” Trump before an “audience of social justice warriors.” The editor of the Jesuit magazine America, on the other hand, tweeted a link to the “powerful speech.”

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