U.S. bishops should expand ministry to migrants, cardinal says
A migrant mother from Venezuela embraces her child as they wait to be transported by Border Patrol after crossing the Rio Grande into Del Rio, Texas, May 27, 2021. (CNS photo/Go Nakamura, Reuters)
By Rhina Guidos • Catholic News Service • Posted June 9, 2021
MUNDELEIN, Ill. (CNS) A Vatican official asked a group of bishops gathered at Mundelein Seminary June 2 to think of migrants, whether they arrive for the short or long term, as “parishioners” and organize pastoral plans to tend to them.
Cardinal Michael Czerny, undersecretary of the Migrants and Refugees Section of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, addressed via Zoom an emergency meeting of bishops from the U.S., Central America and Mexico, which included heads of major U.S. Catholic organizations that help migrants.
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