Washington D.C. auxiliary Bishop Robert P. Boxie III has a great future ahead of him in the post-conciliar Church. He’s young, wears sneakers, is liberal, and knows how to play the race card.
But it has now been revealed that he made political donations to ActBlue and to a congressional candidate who publicly supports abortion rights and LGBT causes.
Boxie, 46, is a Harvard Law School graduate who practiced law before entering seminary. He was appointed auxiliary bishop of Washington by Leo in May.
The latest controversy — it is not his first — began after Michael Hichborn of the Lepanto Institute published details of political contributions attributed to Boxie in federal election records. The records showed that Boxie gave $100 to ActBlue in 2019 and $50 in 2020. ActBlue funds progressive and far-left candidates and organizations.
On September 24, 2025, Boxie contributed $250 to Amanda Edwards, who was running in the Democratic primary for Texas’ 18th Congressional District. Boxie’s occupation was clearly identified as “Catholic priest” in the donation records, and his employer was listed as the Archdiocese of Washington.
Pro-abortion group EMILY’s List endorsed Edwards at the time. On her website, Edwards clearly states she would stand for “reproductive freedom,” abortion access, and that she would “fight to ensure LGBTQIA+ people are federally protected.”
According to Hichborn’s research, there is a longstanding connection between Edwards and Boxie. Both graduated from Harvard Law School in 2007 and subsequently worked as associates at Vinson & Elkins during overlapping years. They are also friends on Facebook.
Leo’s appointments have a habit of undermining Church teaching
The Dispatch
While many faithful Catholics still see abortion and LGBT lifestyles as gravely contrary to the moral law, synodal prelates are increasingly, at the very least, ambiguous about them.
Not a week goes by in which a priest, bishop, or cardinal doesn’t scandalize the faithful by downplaying or outright supporting these issues. Some in the conciliar hierarchy who are well known for being pro-LGBT — albeit under the euphemistic umbrella of “pastoral inclusion” — include Cardinal Blasé Cupich, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, Jesuit James Martin, and a string of recent Leo appointees, including Bishops Michael Saporito, Pedro Luis Fuentes Valencia, Alfonso Raimo, James Checchio, Ramón Bejarano, Christian Würtz, and Thomas Hennen.
Leo also appointed the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Archbishop Renzo Pegoraro, who suggested earlier this month that Catholics could morally support an “imperfect” law regulating assisted suicide if doing so prevented the adoption of a more permissive law.
The disclosure of Boxie’s political activities comes in the wake of another controversy he was involved in earlier this month.
During an interview with Catholic News Service’s Vatican Access, he was asked why so few African Americans have been raised to the episcopate. Boxie went into full-on social justice warrior mode and replied, “the short answer is racism.”
Elsewhere in the same interview, Boxie praised Leo for “equalling the playing field for us to take the ball and to move it forward, not only in the Church, but also in our nation, because the terrible things that happened in our country spilled over, unfortunately, into practices in the Church as well and I think this is really an opportunity for us as Catholics, to lead the way, really for us to lead the way.”
It would not be unfair to conclude that Boxie would like to see Catholics “lead the way” by promoting pro-abortion and pro-LGBT politicians such as Edwards in order to “take the ball and to move it forward.”
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Twice within the space of one month Boxie has been exposed as being more aligned with the woke ideology of liberal activists in America than with the example set by the Apostles who defended to the death the perennial truths of the Catholic faith against worldly thinking.
