Washington Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl will be elevated to the Catholic Church’s College of Cardinals in November. The 69-year-old Wuerl is the second American to be named to the body of Catholic leaders who are tasked with advising and, when the time comes, selecting the Pope. Wuerl has been the District’s Archbishop since 2006, when he succeeded Theodore Cardinal McCarrick. Of course, this news is a lot more shiny than the last time that Wuerl was in the headlines. In 2009, the Archbishop defended the Washington Archdiocese’s threats to pull social work contracts if the D.C. Council approved legislation legalizing same sex marriage with some seriously shaky reasoning. Wuerl is also on record as being a proponent of a public referendum on gay marriage.