In Lent, the Gloria and Alleluia are suppressed in the liturgy, but there is nothing to prevent the good people of San Diego from using these expressions of Christian joy in casual conversation today as news spreads that they have a new bishop. And not just a new bishop: San Diego hit the jackpot in Bishop Robert McElroy, until now auxiliary bishop of San Francisco.
+McElroy is hardly an unfamiliar name here at NCR. Back in 2010, my colleague Tom Roberts profiled +McElroy at the time he was named an auxiliary bishop. Roberts was there covering a different story, but kept hearing about how wonderful the new auxiliary was. As he wrote at the time:
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