{"id":288337,"date":"2018-07-03T06:29:06","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T10:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/?p=288337"},"modified":"2018-07-03T06:29:06","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T10:29:06","slug":"bishops-at-the-border-describe-somber-experience-visiting-detained-migrant-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2018\/07\/bishops-at-the-border-describe-somber-experience-visiting-detained-migrant-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishops at the border describe &#8216;somber&#8217; experience visiting detained migrant children"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>From <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/services\/englishnews\/2018\/bishops-end-border-visit-calling-for-urgent-reunification-of-children.cfm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">CNS:\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In less than 48 hours, a group of Catholic bishops saw the faces of triumph and relief from migrants who had been recently released by immigration authorities, but ended their two-day journey to the border with a more \u201csomber\u201d experience, visiting detained migrant children living temporarily within the walls of a converted Walmart.<\/p>\n<p>During a news conference after the second and last day of their visit July 2, they stressed the \u201curgent\u201d need to do something to help the migrant children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe children who are separated from their parents need to be reunited. That\u2019s already begun and it\u2019s certainly not finished and there may be complications, but it must be done and it\u2019s urgent,\u201d said Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.<\/p>\n<p>Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles, USCCB vice president, celebrated Mass in Spanish with about 250 children at the facility on what once was the loading dock of the superstore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was, as you can imagine, very challenging to see the children by themselves,\u201d Archbishop Gomez said during the news conference. \u201cObviously, when there are children at Mass, they are with their parents and families \u2026 but it was special to be with them and give them some hope.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/services\/englishnews\/2018\/bishops-end-border-visit-calling-for-urgent-reunification-of-children.cfm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>Read more<\/strong>.<\/a> And check out the video report by Chaz Muth below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"U.S. bishops survey immigration crisis\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z72kdB3zuYo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CNS:\u00a0 In less than 48 hours, a group of Catholic bishops saw the faces of triumph and relief from migrants who had been recently released by immigration authorities, but ended their two-day journey to the border with a more \u201csomber\u201d experience, visiting detained migrant children living temporarily within the walls of a converted Walmart. 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