migrants

The work, “Angels Unawares,” stands in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, and the code was added to provide visitors and tourists with information about the sculpture and about Catholic teaching on migration.

Bishop Seitz chatted with men and women, dropped off gifts for their children, blessed those who asked for a blessing and talked to shelter workers on the front lines.

In this Advent and Christmas season, as we reflect on the Holy Family and their hasty departure to Egypt fleeing Herod, we can look closer and see those who are fleeing from other perils.

A tractor-trailer carrying more than 150 migrants crashed in Mexico’s southern Chiapas state.

Since 2014, the project has recorded 45,427 missing migrants, just a fraction of “incidents in which migrants, including refugees and asylum-seekers, have died at state borders or in the process of migrating to an international destination.”

Along with a large group of supporters and associates, about 80 women religious from 24 congregations around the country marched and circled an area in front of the White House singing and carrying signs that read: “Catholic Sisters say: End the Immoral Use of Title 42.”

In a Dec. 6 statement, the bishops also called on the federal government to “promptly carry out its commitments to promote and protect the fundamental rights of people in the context of migration.”

Pope Francis does not expect people to look at migration with rose-colored glasses, but he does expect them to look at the actual migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers as brothers and sisters.