After raking in billions of dollars helping illegal aliens invade the United States, bishops are now doing their best to block their deportation.
An auxiliary bishop sprinkled holy water on 70 volunteers Monday, Aug. 4, as Bishop Michael Pham launched a new ministry in the San Diego Diocese, which has nearly 1.4 million Catholics.
The volunteers will wear buttons proclaiming “FAITH” — “Faithful Accompaniment In Trust & Hope” — a program to make sure refugees and asylum seekers are not alone at immigration hearings.
Spurred by an event on World Refugee Day, June 20 — when Pham and other clergy saw masked ICE agents “scatter” at their immigration court presence — the diocesan ministry unveiled a calendar for sign-ups and held an orientation.
“This is history in the making … something beautiful and mighty,” Gloria Morales-Palos told a chapel audience at the diocese’s Pastoral Center. She’s co-chair of the San Diego Organizing Project board, the activist group whose executive director — Dinora Reyna — first suggested clergy show up at immigration court on World Refugee Day.
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