Pope Francis Appoints First Black Cardinal Chicago-Native Wilton Gregory

Pope Francis allocated 13 new cardinals on Sunday, during St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City.  Archbishop of Washington D.C., Wilton Gregory,72, became a first-ever allocated to America’s Catholic Church’s top ruling physique on Oct. 26, 2020.

Gregory was innate in Chicago,  Illinois, and consecrated a clergyman in 1972. He served as a associate priest during Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Glenview, a expertise member during St. Mary of a Lake Seminary in Mundelein and he was also a master of ceremonies to Cardinals John Cody and Joseph Bernardin in 1973, that same year, he became an auxiliary bishop in Chicago.

In 1994, he worked as a bishop of Belleville. In early 2000, he guided a Catholic Church by a preaching passionate abuse crisis. Then in 2004, he was a bishop in Atlanta. In 2019, he went to Washinton D.C. to offer as a bishop.

He was a initial American inaugurated to a College of Cardinals given 2016. The Catholic Church has always released Blacks from positions of power.  Since he was among 13 selected by Pope Francis and a initial and usually Black gives many people wish for secular equality.

According to a U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, a Cardinal’s pursuit consists of electing a new pope if he decides to step down. The red that they wear represents their eagerness to scapegoat themselves to a indicate of shedding their possess blood in a use of a inheritor of Peter. The rite to place a new cardinals will take place on Nov. 28, 2020.

Written by Jessica Letcher
Edited by Cathy Milne-Ware

Sources:

Chicago Sun-Times: Pope Francis appoints America’s initial African American cardinal, Chicago-native Wilton Gregory; Frances D’Emilio

The New York Times: Pope Francis Appoints First African-American Cardinal; Elizabeth Dias and Jason Horowitz

CNN: Pope Francis appoints America’s initial Black cardinal, Wilton Gregory; Kelly Murray

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