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With children's prayers nearby, bishops try to tackle immigration


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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