Mundelein, Ill. Prayers, the kind only a child can make, were on display on a table of pleas written by migrant children near a small statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe, as bishops from the U.S., Mexico and Central America gathered June 1 in Mundelein.
The prelates came together for the first day of an emergency meeting on immigration at Mundelein Seminary outside of Chicago. Dear God, I ask you that you help me get out of here and that you take care of my mom, read a note written in Spanish by a child in a tent camp, a note collected by Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, who joined more than 20 bishops, along with Vatican representatives and leaders of Catholic organizations for an unprecedented gathering June 1 and 2.
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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (CNS) The executive director of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc. said she hopes to see the Biden administration use the U.S. vice president s forthcoming trip to Mexico and Guatemala as opportunity to correct historic wrongs in the region.
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (CNS) The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is participating in an emergency meeting with prelates from Central America as well as Vatican representatives June 1 and 2 in Chicago to set forth a path for the U.S. church s response to immigration.