Offering hope?
“In 2012,” they note, “Pope Benedict XVI applauded the bishops’ support for migrants when he declared that ‘The Catholic community in the United States continues, with great generosity, to welcome waves of new immigrants, to provide them with pastoral care and charitable assistance, and to support ways of regularizing their situation, especially with regard to the unification of families.’ He also stressed that a particular sign of this is the long-standing commitment of the American bishops to immigration reform.”