Mexico’s bishops have expressed alarm over the expanding scope of the COVID-19 crisis.
Mexican bishops call for more robust response to COVID-19 crisis
Mexican bishops call for action, boosting families as femicide increases
Mexico’s bishops voiced outrage over a spate of shocking slayings of women and girls.
Jason Adkins: Mission trip exhibits joy of the Gospel, fight against throwaway culture
“As migration-related advocacy has been a significant focus of our work at Minnesota Catholic Conference over the past decade, I thought it important to travel to the U.S.-Mexico border to encounter the realities faced by those living and migrating there.”
Three new dioceses carved out of Archdiocese of Mexico
Three new dioceses have been carved out of the Archdiocese of Mexico, a move Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes of Mexico City said will bring pastors “closer to all the inhabitants.”
Bishop helps migrant family at border cross into U.S. on asylum trek
Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, was able June 27 to help a migrant family seeking asylum successfully cross an international bridge from Mexico into the United States.
Bishop tries to help migrants at international bridge in El Paso
Bishop Mark J. Seitz of the U.S. border Diocese of El Paso, Texas, walked and prayed with a group of migrants at the Lerdo International Bridge in El Paso June 27 as they sought asylum in the U.S.
U.S. bishops join pope reacting to photos of drowned migrant father, child
“This image cries to heaven for justice. This image silences politics. Who can look on this picture and not see the results of the failures of all of us to find a humane and just solution to the immigration crisis?” the bishops said in a June 26 statement.
Franciscans, others collaborate to build two houses in Mexico
Two families of San Rafael Parish in Nuevo León, Mexico, live in new homes, thanks to the Franciscan Civil Association and more than a dozen Central Minnesotan volunteers on a mission building trip last April.