Cardinal Wilton Gregory, the Archbishop of Washington, D.C., took possession of his titular church, the Church of the Immaculate Conception, in Rome on Sept. 27, almost a year after Pope Francis created him cardinal.<\/p>\n
CARD. WILTON GREGORY The Cardinal assured the small crowd of parishioners present at the ceremony of his prayers.<\/p>\n CARD. WILTON GREGORY It was a simple and brief ceremony in a small church, but a joyful occasion nonetheless.<\/p>\n GIULIANA Every cardinal is given a titular church in Rome. It's an ancient tradition and reminder of the Pope's unity with cardinals around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" September 28, 2021. Card. Gregory is grateful to Pope Francis for assigning him the Church of the Immaculate Conception, the patroness of the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/AW_IpRtGiBU","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bcarswashingtoneng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bcarswashingtonint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nArchbishop of Washington, D.C.<\/strong>
\n\u201cI am deeply grateful to Pope Francis for assigning me as Cardinal Priest to this beloved community. I am happier still because the Immaculate Conception is the patroness of the United States of America.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\nArchbishop of Washington, D.C.<\/strong>
\n\u201cEvery time I think of this title of Our Lady, I will be united in prayer with you, your families and your priests. And I hope that you too will remember me and the Archdiocese of Washington in your prayers.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\nParishioner<\/strong>
\n\u201cI also live in Washington. My daughter was born in Washington. So it's a great source of joy for me to be here and share in this moment, in this city, between Rome and Washington.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n