USCCB migration chair: ‘Acts of accompaniment are vitally important’

“We know our Church has been accompanying newcomers to this land since before our country’s founding.”

The head of the USCCB migration committee encouraged the U.S. bishops to participate in a new national initiative to support and accompany immigrants affected by the Trump administration’s policy of mass deportations.

Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso. Credit: USCCB live stream.

“As our late Holy Father Pope Francis so often reminded us, and as Pope Leo has st…