Pope Francis has appointed Reverend
Gregg M. Caggianelli as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese for
the Military Services in the United States, the Vatican Press
Office said Friday.
Bishop Caggianelli is a priest of the Diocese of Venice, Florida
and currently serves as the vice-rector of Saint Vincent de Paul
Regional Seminary in Boynton Beach, which is also in Florida.
Pope Francis is continuing to work from Rome's Agostino Gemelli
Hospital where he is being treated for bilateral pneumonia.
Vatican sources said early on Friday that it will be possible to
understand how the pontiff is responding to his new therapy
between Friday and Saturday.
Francis was hospitalized one week ago, on February 14.
The pontiff has made a number of new appointments in the United
States since the beginning of this year.
One of them was Robert McElroy who was named archbishop of
Washington in January after being transferred from the diocese
of San Diego.
He replaced Wilton Gregory, 77 anni, who had become the city's
first African American archbishop in 2019.
McElroy has been a straunch supporter of the pontiff's agenda in
support of migrants and refugees, the environment and a more
welcoming approach towards Lgbtq+ people.
And this month the pontiff also wrote a letter to US bishops in
which he harshly criticized US President Donald Trump's
immigration policy.
"Deporting people who in many cases have left their homeland for
reasons of extreme poverty, insecurity, exploitation,
persecution or serious deterioration of the environment,
undermines the dignity of many men and women, and of entire
families", the letter said.
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