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The Catholic Church has emerged with a united voice on immigration, one that is heard from parishes around the country to the Vatican, where our Chicago-born pope has made clear his disapproval of the mass deportations and mistreatment of immigrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pastors and parishioners across the country were already responding to the needs of newcomers \u2014 indeed, some have been assisting migrants and immigrants for decades. The United States bishops went further this past autumn, issuing a \u201cspecial message\u201d during their annual assembly in Baltimore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bishops signaled the alarm and urgency with which they view the current campaign of mass deportations. It was their first special message<\/a> in over a decade. Also remarkable, the message received overwhelming support: 216 votes in favor and only five opposed, with three abstentions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pope Leo XIV personally underscored the message, urging U.S. Catholics and other people \u201cof goodwill\u201d to read it. The pope condemned the \u201cextremely disrespectful\u201d treatment<\/a> of immigrants living \u201cgood lives \u2014 many of them for 10, 15, 20 years\u201d in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have to look for ways of treating people humanely, treating people with the dignity that they have,\u201d the pope said. \u201cIf people are in the States illegally \u2026 there are courts. There is a system of justice\u201d to address that. He added, \u201cno one has said that the United States should have open borders.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maryknoll missioners have worked in longstanding ministries to migrants, immigrants and refugees \u2014 whether they are fleeing oppression and violence, displaced by natural disasters and climate change, or seeking immediate survival and eventual integration \u2014 both overseas and in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Father Lance Nadeau, the superior general of the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, says missioners are seeing the consequences of the administration\u2019s anti-immigrant policies<\/a> locally in Westchester County, New York, where Maryknoll is headquartered; in Chicago, where some of its seminarians study; in El Paso, Texas, where Maryknoll priests, sisters and lay missioners have served for years; and in various areas from California to Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe physical abuse and conditions that people have to experience in detention are terrible,\u201d Father Nadeau says. \u201cIt\u2019s outrageous that they\u2019re breaking up families.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said the Maryknoll Society, along with Maryknoll Sisters<\/a> and others in the Westchester area, are part of a coalition seeking to help immigrants now living in fear. Responses range from providing food assistance for those afraid to leave their homes to protesting the government\u2019s actions and tactics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur hope is to address the most urgent needs of immigrants who are in danger,\u201d says Sister Teresa Hougnon, president of the Maryknoll Sisters. \u201cWe\u2019re talking about food security, accompaniment and child safety.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Susan Gunn, director of the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, vigils outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters. (OSV News\/Leslie E. Kossoff\/U.S.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Both Sister Hougnon and Father Nadeau say the current restrictions on immigration are impacting vocational candidates from overseas. Tighter scrutiny for entry into the United States has forced the Maryknoll Sisters and the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers to restructure their formation programs for foreign candidates. The Sisters have taken foreign vocations almost since their founding, while the Society began welcoming prospects from mission countries a few years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey\u2019re now going to the Philippines,\u201d Sister Hougnon says, explaining that the congregation has opened a formation house for the novitiate in Manila.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Society has done the same in Nairobi, Kenya, Father Nadeau says, establishing a novitiate there after some candidates were denied visas to study in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sister Hougnon says that one elderly Maryknoll sister, who holds a green card, was so severely scrutinized upon returning to the United States from mission overseas that she opted to remain at Maryknoll for the time being, fearing she might be denied re-entry in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bishops\u2019 message on immigration opened with a litany of concerns, among them \u201ca climate of fear and anxiety\u201d around the \u201cvilification of immigrants,\u201d conditions in detention centers and lack of access to pastoral care, as well as the arbitrary elimination of categories of legal status for people already here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are grieved when we meet parents who fear being detained when taking their children to school and when we try to console family members who have already been separated from their loved ones,\u201d the bishops said, explicitly stating, \u201cWe oppose the indiscriminate mass deportation of people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For some, the bishops\u2019 statement isn\u2019t enough. Redemptorist Bishop Bruce A. Lewandowski, of Providence, Rhode Island, is one of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cImmigration isn\u2019t politics. It\u2019s part of our DNA as people of faith,\u201d Bishop Lewandowski said at a gathering of Church and pastoral leaders<\/a> convened in Providence in early December at the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul. \u201cGod commands us to welcome the immigrant, to love the foreigner,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne by one, moms and dads, husbands and wives (are) plucked out of communities, sent on a plane to Guatemala and Mexico,\u201d said Bishop Lewandowski. \u201cIt is a strategy to destabilize the family. \u2026 None of the people I know who\u2019ve been taken are murderers, drug traffickers, rapists, terrorists or criminals of any kind. All they did was cross the border like Abraham, Moses, Sarah or Jacob \u2014 like Jesus, Mary and Joseph.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He calls for \u201ca faith-based movement, a broad and far-reaching coalition to flood Washington with advocacy and advocates\u201d akin to the Civil Rights Movement. What if, he asked, \u201cwe just started sending busloads of people like ourselves to Washington, to put before our government leaders the sorrow of our people who are being persecuted, who are being maligned and vilified, who are being detained and deported?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kevin Appleby of the Center for Migration Studies<\/a>, one of the sponsors of the gathering, noted that St. John Paul II wrote that mass deportations are \u201cintrinsically evil.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat does that mean?\u201d asked Appleby. \u201cIt means they cannot be morally justified.\u201d While deportation itself is not necessarily evil, he continued, the individual in question must present a threat to the community and due process must be followed \u2014 which isn\u2019t happening in many cases in the current climate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maryknoll Lay Missioner Heidi Cerneka<\/a>, an immigration attorney working for a nonprofit in El Paso, increasingly sees a disregard for due process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have people who actually had some kind of status that ICE totally ignored,\u201d she says. \u201cAlthough [the immigrants] are playing by the rules, the government isn\u2019t.\u201d Consequently, she says, people who have a claim to remain in the States are nonetheless detained and deported, or they are held in such horrific conditions that they ask to be deported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Appleby said the Providence gathering, titled Witness to Hope: Responding to Mass Deportations, was the first of what he hopes will be many regional meetings. \u201cOur goal is to get the Church together and build our network,\u201d he says, \u201cand then, hopefully, one day pivot and try to get immigration reform.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Father Nadeau says the Church\u2019s response to immigration must come from the Gospel, including  responding to the charge that immigrants are criminals if they entered the illegally or overstayed their visas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJesus gave the thief dying on the cross a second chance,\u201d he says. \u201cMany people make mistakes. We pardon people. Certainly, President Trump pardons people. \u2026 Forgiveness and an opportunity for a new way of life is part of the Gospel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Featured image: Bishop Bruce Lewandowski (orange hat) of Providence, Rhode Island, leads a prayer service including a migration-themed recitation of the rosary outside the Donald Wyatt Detention Facility in his diocese. (Erik Scalavino\/Rhode Island Catholic\/U.S.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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