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Today, Bishop Mark J. Seitz (El Paso) released a historic pastoral letter on mass deportations and mass detention. Read the full message here: hopeborder.org/_files/ugd/e07… @BishopSeitz @elpasodiocese

📰 “March with us at this important moment to witness the power of faith and compassion and to stand together in defense of the strength and resilience of our El Paso border community.” - Msgr. Arturo Bañuelas for @elpasomatters elpasomatters.org/2026/03/19/opi…

In just one week, we will gather as a community and as a nation to bear witness to the realities facing our migrant brothers and sisters. Learn more about why we march and why you should too in this week’s #FronteraDispatch.

Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, Texas, called on immigration enforcement to follow the Gospel rather than “immoral order,” offering them guidance on how to discern the morality of their work. catholicnewsagency.com/news/270541/bi…

In just one week, Bishop Evelio Menjivar, Auxiliary of @washarchdiocese, will join @BishopSeitz and our El Paso community as we march on the Feast of Saint Oscar Romero and pray for an end to mass deportations. 📆 Tuesday, March 24 ⏰ 6pm 📍 San Jacinto Plaza #ConFeSinMiedo

"If Jesus says, 'I will be with you until the end of time,' where do you find him? Among the least of us -- and isn't that kind of why we are here?" osvnews.com/witness-to-hop…

As El Paso braces for the impact of mass detention and mass deportations, Bishop Mark J. Seitz of the Diocese of El Paso delivered a pastoral message aimed at people across the community. bit.ly/4doXeRc

"There has to be some proportionality in our response to a particular case in which a law has been in some way violated." pillarcatholic.com/p/bishop-seitz…

UPDATED: El Paso Bishop Robert J. Seitz/@BishopSeitz on Sunday denounced the #Trumpadministration’s campaign of mass detention and mass deportation of immigrants as “a grave moral evil, one which must be opposed, with #prayer, #peaceful action and acts of #solidarity with those affected.” Bishop Seitz, a vocal advocate for #immigrants for decades, delivered his sharp criticism of the policies in a #pastoralletter, which he signed at St. Patrick Cathedral in #ElPaso and directed to be read at all Sunday Masses in the El Paso Diocese’s 55 parishes. “To those of you affected by hatred and discrimination and afraid of what comes next, know that the Church stands with you,” Seitz wrote in the pastoral letter. “As your Bishop, I carry your pain daily in my heart and in my prayers. I stand with you.” Pope Leo XIX/@Pontifex employed those very words — “I stand with you.” — when speaking to Seitz and other members of a U.S. delegation of immigration advocates at the #Vatican in early October. At the meeting, the first U.S.-born pontiff told the delegation that he hoped the #USbishops would become “stronger in their own voice” on immigration issues. Little more than a month later, the @USCCB approved a rare pastoral message condemning the Trump administration’s “indiscriminate mass deportation” of immigrants as an affront to “God-given human dignity.” In his message, the 71-year-old Seitz wrote: “Our Holy Father, #PopeLeo XIV, told me personally to stand in solidarity with suffering #migrant families and not to remain silent. I will do everything I can to uphold the God-given dignity of every person in our borderlands community.” While acknowledging what he portrayed as the overdue need for “significant immigration reforms,” Seitz said in his message: “It is an injustice to make #families, #children and the #vulnerable pay the price of our inaction…. I must make clear, the current national campaign of #mass detention and deportations is a grave #moralevil, one which must be opposed, with prayer, peaceful action and acts of solidarity with those affected.” Seitz urged #immigrationenforcement officers to follow “the moral requirements of the Gospel at this moment with integrity and honesty,” adding: “No one has to obey an immoral order…. When we take off our masks and encounter each other as neighbors, we can reclaim our common dignity.”.... Dylan Corbett, executive director of the El Paso-based Hope Border Institute, a Catholic organization that advocates for immigrants, praised Bishop Seitz’s pastoral letter. “This is an important message because it categorically calls out #massdeportations as a grave evil, one which, as the bishop says, must be opposed with acts of solidarity, peaceful protest and work to shape a more just system,” Corbett said in an email to The Catholic Observer. Corbett — who along with Seitz, led the delegation of U.S. immigrant advocates who visited with Pope Leo at the #Vatican in October — said it seemed fitting that the bishop issued his pastoral letter after a breakfast meeting with #immigrants, including some who had been detained at #CampEastMontana. Other immigrants who have been deported participated in the meeting remotely. “For Bishop Seitz,” Corbett said, “this isn’t a political issue…. It’s a letter grounded in an experience of encounter, and a strong sign of solidarity with all fearing the immigrant enforcement machine right now in our country.” Corbett noted the letter’s “strong denunciation of the immigrant detention system” after 11 deaths in ICE custody this year alone — and 32 last year, the highest in more than two decades. Read the full updated story in The Catholic Obsserver: thecatholicobserver.substack.com/p/updated-el-p… #BishopSeitz #HopeBorderInstitute #DylanCorbett #ElPasoDiocese #USCCB #immigration #PopeLeo #Vatican #USCCB #massdeportations #Catholic #CatholicChurch #TriciaMcLaughlin #KristiNoem #CoreyLewandowski #dhs #dhsscandal #SafeAmericaMedia #StrategyGroup #ICEkillings #DHS #Minneapolis #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #RubenRayMartinez #CampEastMontan #DonaldTrump #MarkwayneMullin

Bishop Seitz Pastoral Letter: "I must make clear, the current national campaign of mass detention and deportations is a grave moral evil, one which must be opposed, with prayer, peaceful action and acts of solidarity with those affected." osvnews.com/in-new-pastora…

.@BishopSeitz in new Pastoral Letter: “To those of you affected by hatred and discrimination and afraid of what comes next, know that the church stands with you. As your Bishop, I carry your pain daily in my heart and in my prayers. I stand with you. Our Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV , told me personally to stand in solidarity with suffering migrant families and not to remain silent. I will do everything I can to uphold the God-given dignity of every person in our borderlands community.”

El Paso Catholic Bishop Mark Seitz says the “current campaign of mass detention and deportations is a grave moral evil, one which must be opposed, with prayer, peaceful action and acts of solidarity.” ktsm.com/news/seitz-cal…

"The current national campaign of mass detention and deportations is a grave moral evil, one which must be opposed, with prayer, peaceful action and acts of solidarity with those affected." -- El Paso Bishop Mark J. Seitz, new pastoral letter on mass deportation, mass detention of immigrants. The full text of Bishop Seitz's pastoral Letter, read at all Masses in the El Paso Diocese today: thecatholicobserver.substack.com/p/the-full-tex… #BishopSeitz #HopeBorderInstitute #DylanCorbett #ElPasoDiocese #USCCB #immigration #massdeportations #Catholic #CatholicChurch #news #ICEmurders #TriciaMcLaughlin #KristiNoem #CoreyLewandowski #dhs #dhsscandal #accountability #SafeAmericaMedia #StrategyGroup #ICE #ICEkillings #DHS #HomelandSecurity #StephenMiller #Minneapolis #ReneeGood #reneenicolegood #AlexPretti #tomhoman #AliyaRahman #DonaldTrump @BishopSeitz @DylanCorbett23 @AstridLiden @HopeBorder @USCCB @Pontifex @ArchbishopOKC @CardinalBCupich @WashArchdiocese @AbpNewYork @PaxChristi @archchicago @cliniclegal @archbalt @TCCatholics @PaxChristiUSA @MikeOLoughlin @MassimoFaggioli @CIS_org @austeni @cliniclegal @BlkCathlicMsngr @NIJC @belkiswille @christopherhale @ironworker1 @JamesMartinSJ @USinHolySee @BrianBurchUSA @CatholicVote @CforCatholics @CatholicSOTC @catholicnews1

Today, Bishop Mark J. Seitz (El Paso) released a historic pastoral letter on mass deportations and mass detention. Read the full message here: hopeborder.org/_files/ugd/e07… @BishopSeitz @elpasodiocese

Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, called for an end to mass deportation and redoubled efforts to show solidarity with those affected by that policy in a new pastoral message released March 15. osvnews.com/in-new-pastora…

Following breakfast with immigrants who experienced trauma in El Paso’s Fort Bliss detention center, @BishopSeitz issues pastoral letter condemning mass deportation policy as ‘grave evil’, distributes letter to nuns, families and immigrants rights leaders elpasomatters.org/2026/03/15/el-…

NEW: In Pastoral Letter released today, El Paso’s @BishopSeitz denounces mass detention and mass deportation calling both a “grave moral evil;” Seitz goes to say that: “No one has to obey an immoral order.” hopeborder.org/_files/ugd/e07…

El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz called mass detention and deportation a “grave moral evil” in a Lenten pastoral letter, urging Catholics in immigration enforcement to follow the Gospel over immoral orders, and expressing solidarity with migrants. elpasomatters.org/2026/03/15/el-…

This Sunday, March 15th, Bishop Mark Seitz will release a historic pastoral message to our community on Mass Deportations and Mass Detention. Join us at the 11am Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral this Sunday. #ConFeSinMiedo