Cardinal Czerny calls on bishops to expand pastoral ministry to migrants
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 he