{"id":68980,"date":"2025-12-12T22:24:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=68980"},"modified":"2025-12-12T22:24:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:24:50","slug":"immigration-is-a-personal-one-because-were-pastors-u-s-bishops-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/fr\/learn\/immigration-is-a-personal-one-because-were-pastors-u-s-bishops-say\/","title":{"rendered":"L'immigration est une question \u00ab personnelle parce que nous sommes des pasteurs \u00bb, disent les \u00e9v\u00eaques am\u00e9ricains"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 100%; margin-bottom: 25px;\">\n  <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/images\/panel-immigration.jpg?ssl=1\" style=\"display: block; margin: auto; max-width: 100%\" \/><br \/>\n  <span style=\"text-align: right; font-style: italic;\">Maura Moser (far left), director of the Catholic Communications Campaign, moderates a discussion on immigration with (left to right) Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops; Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades, chair of the USCCB\u2019s religious liberty committee, and Bishop Mark Seitz, chairman of the USCCB\u2019s migration committee, on Nov. 11, 2025, during a press conference at the conference\u2019s Fall Plenary Assembly in Baltimore. \/ Credit: Shannon Mullen\/National Catholic Register<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>Baltimore, Maryland, Nov 11, 2025 \/ 16:04 pm (CNA).<\/p>\n<p>U.S. bishops said immigration enforcement in the United States is a \u201ccrisis situation\u201d affecting human dignity and religious liberty in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference during the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops\u2019 (USCCB) Fall Plenary Assembly in Baltimore, USCCB President Archbishop Timothy Broglio; Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, Texas; and Bishop Kevin Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, discussed migrants and the \u201cuncertainty\u201d they feel amid immigration enforcement in the nation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width:100%\" class=\"mx-auto embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-BLNphyyn1U?feature=oembed\" class=\"embed-responsive-item null\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"null\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In the Nov. 11 press conference, Broglio said immigration enforcement is \u201cpreventing people from bringing their children to church, to school, or \u2026 to the emergency room.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cWe, as pastors, would like to alleviate that fear and assure \u2026 people that we are with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there\u2019s a remarkable unity among all the bishops. This is an issue of human dignity,\u201d Broglio said. \u201cThe Gospel teaches us especially to be compassionate, reach out to the immigrants, and just [have] concern about their well-being.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor us, this issue is not an abstract one,\u201d Seitz said. \u201cIt\u2019s a personal one because we\u2019re pastors \u2026 We care about our people, and we care particularly for those who are most vulnerable and those who are most in need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBishops across the board\u201d are seeing \u201cpeople in our dioceses being swept up in this effort to go after people who are immigrants,\u201d Seitz said. \u201cI say that in a very broad sense, because although what the government has been saying, \u2018We\u2019re after criminals,\u2019 it\u2019s extended much more broadly than that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we certainly agree that people who are some threat to our community ought to be taken off of our streets once they\u2019re convicted, the sweep has taken up so many others and has the risk of setting aside any due process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seitz said the right to due process is \u201ca fundamental part of our nation\u2019s basic approach that everyone has certain rights. Those rights ought to be respected with a process that allows us to ascertain whether they indeed did commit some act that was a violation of our law.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>A matter of religious liberty&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<p>Denying Communion to detainees is \u201can issue of religious liberty,\u201d the bishops said, adding that the USCCB Committee on Religious Liberty is \u201cvery concerned\u201d about it.<\/p>\n<p>The committee met on Nov. 10 to discuss how to ensure people in detention facilities receive \u201cpastoral spiritual care and especially the grace of the sacraments,\u201d Rhoades said. \u201cOne doesn\u2019t lose that right when one is detained. Whether one is documented or undocumented \u2014 this is a fundamental right of the person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s heartbreaking when you think of the suffering. Especially those who\u2019ve been detained, separated from families, those who haven\u2019t committed crimes,\u201d Rhoades said. \u201cThey need spiritual support in this, and they need the sacraments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bishops were asked by reporters if they plan to speak to the Trump administration about its immigration policies, which are affecting parishes across the United States.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Seitz said the bishops are working on a statement at their fall meeting. \u201cAs bishops, we want to speak from who we are, and certainly, we address issues of principle, such as religious liberty \u2026 [and] human dignity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll try to stick to our foundations \u2026 in any statement that we make,\u201d he continued. \u201cBut we also want it to be something that\u2019s very clear and that is rooted in the Gospel. \u2026 It will also, I believe, speak to immigrants, not simply to our government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be a message of solidarity with our brothers and sisters who find themselves in difficulty or who find themselves in fear to let them know that they\u2019re not alone, that their pastors are going on with them,\u201d\u00a0Seitz said.<\/p>\n<p>Rhoades added that the goal of the message is also \u201cto cross the aisle,\u201d as the Church is \u201cnot partisan.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re talking about human lives in the United States and really important principles of our country \u2014 including just human dignity [and] religious liberty,\u201d Rhoades said. \u201cI\u2019m just hopeful that we can move beyond the impasse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later in the day, Seitz announced that the USCCB is launching the \u201cYou Are Not Alone\u201d initiative for migrants, which will focus on \u201cemergency and family support, accompaniment and pastoral care, communications and Church teaching \u2026 and solidarity through prayer and public witness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/267751\/immigration-is-a-personal-one-because-we-re-pastors-us-bishops-say\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/267751\/immigration-is-a-personal-one-because-we-re-pastors-us-bishops-say<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maura Moser (far left), director of the Catholic Communications Campaign, moderates a discussion on immigration with (left to right) Archbishop Timothy P. 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