Category: Bishop Mark J. Seitz

At border Mass above the Rio Grande, migrants who died are remembered

by bcadmin | Nov 7, 2022 | Bishop Mark J. Seitz, diocese of El Paso, El Paso, News, Texas-Mexican border, U.S.-Mexico border | 0 |

From an altar set on a platform just above the waters that straddle the U.S. and Mexico, Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, celebrated a Mass Nov. 5 to remember migrants who’ve died trying to cross the waters below or along the border in 2022.

Bishop Seitz criticizes expansion of Title 42 to ‘vulnerable’ Venezuelans

by bcadmin | Oct 17, 2022 | Biden Administration, Bishop Mark J. Seitz, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, HOPE Border Institute, Jesuit Refugee Service, migrants and refugees, News, Title 42, Venezuela | 0 |

The Biden administration’s Oct. 12 decision to apply Title 42 to Venezuelans at the U.S.-Mexico border “will have an immediate impact on our border community,” said Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso.

Catholic leaders praise Supreme Court decision ending Remain in Mexico

by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2022 | Biden Administration, Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville, Bishop Mark J. Seitz, Church in the US, immigration reform, lead, News, Remain in Mexico, U.S. Supreme Court, USCCB | 0 |

Catholic immigration leaders celebrated a Supreme Court ruling that allows the Biden administration to end a controversial Trump-era border policy, but they have little optimism that the ruling will prompt any steps towards true immigration reform.

Catholic Charities welcomes migrants sent to D.C. by Texas governor

by bcadmin | Apr 21, 2022 | Biden Administration, Bishop Mark J. Seitz, Catholic Charities, Church in the US, Governor Greg Abbott, Immigration, lead, News, Title 42 | 0 |

Catholic Charities DC is trying to give a “welcoming, Christ-like response” to migrants that arrive in the nation’s capital on buses from Texas, but the head of the organization says there’s concerns about a lack of assistance from the government.

Immigration advocates praise decision to end ‘Title 42’ border policy

by bcadmin | Apr 5, 2022 | Biden Administration, Bishop Mark J. Seitz, Church in the US, COVID-19 pandemic, Immigration, lead, News, South America, Title 42, U.S.-Mexico border | 0 |

The reaction of Bishop Mark Seitz when he got the news that the federal government will soon terminate Title 42, a controversial border policy, after two years came down to a few simple words: “thanking God.”

Some Catholics stress need for dialogue with Black Lives Matter movement

by bcadmin | Apr 2, 2022 | Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism, Archbishop Jose H. Gomez, Bishop Mark J. Seitz, Bishop Shelton Fabre, Black Lives Matter, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, pastoral letter on racism, Racism | 0 |

The Black Lives Matter movement is coming up to its 10th anniversary next year, so it’s hardly in its beginning stages.

Visa delays causing hardships for Church workers in U.S.

by bcadmin | Mar 18, 2022 | Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville, Bishop Mark J. Seitz, Church in the US, CLINIC, COVID-19 pandemic, Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, lead, News | 0 |

Bishop Mark Seitz considers the process temporary religious worker visa recipients endure to maintain lawful status a “race against time” with federal processing backlogs making it difficult to satisfy different permissions and expiration dates.

Despite promises, little has changed for migrants under Biden administration

by bcadmin | Dec 21, 2021 | Biden Administration, Bishop Mark J. Seitz, Church in the US, diocese of El Paso, HOPE Border Institute, lead, Migrants, News, Remain in Mexico, Title 42 | 0 |

On a Dec. 20 trip visiting with migrants across the border in Ciudad Juárez, Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso found that little has changed with the Biden administration’s re-implementation of the Migrant Protection Protocols.

In Honduras visit, two U.S. bishops get close look at migrants’ plight

by bcadmin | Dec 4, 2021 | Archbishop John C. Wester, Bishop Mark J. Seitz, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, deportations, El Salvador, Elections, Emigration, government, Guatemala, Honduras, Latin America, News, U.S. bishops | 0 |

A few weeks before Honduras’ Nov. 28 presidential election, two bishops from the U.S. quietly landed in the country’s capital of Tegucigalpa with a mission Pope Francis has placed on the world’s Catholic prelates: to listen.

Immigration advocates lament continuation of Remain in Mexico policy

by bcadmin | Dec 3, 2021 | Asylum, Biden Administration, Bishop Mark J. Seitz, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Church in the Americas, Church in the US, HOPE Border Institute, Immigration, lead, News, Remain in Mexico | 0 |

The Biden administration announced yesterday that it reached an agreement with Mexico to restart a policy that forces migrants to wait in Mexico until immigration officials rule on their asylum claim.

Border trip helps inform Iowa church’s ministry to migrants, bishop says

by bcadmin | Nov 14, 2021 | Bishop Mark J. Seitz, Catholic News Service, Church in Mexico, Church in the US, Ciudad Juarez, diocese of Davenport, diocese of El Paso, immigrants and refugees, Iowa, Mexico, News, Texas-Mexican border, U.S.-Mexico border | 0 |

Thirteen-hundred miles from home, a group from the Diocese of Davenport, Iowa, on a border immersion trip encountered a young woman with two kids and a car with a flat tire in Ciudad Juárez.

Bishops demand immigration policy that respects human dignity, right to asylum

by bcadmin | Oct 30, 2021 | Archbishop John C. Wester, Bishop Mark J. Seitz, Central America, Church in the Americas, Church in the US, Honduras, HOPE Border Institute, Immigration, lead, News | 0 |

On a recent trip to Honduras Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso and Archbishop John Wester of Santa Fe drove on rugged gravel roads up a steep mountain side to visit poverty-stricken communities where they learned about people’s needs and drivers of migration.