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Catholic Church and Immigrants

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As political leaders are mired in debate over immigration reform, theU.S. Catholic Church is busy reaching out to embrace the culturalrichness of its increasingly diverse flock.

While it didn’t make front page news, more than 2,000 young HispanicCatholics — many of them new immigrants — gathered recently fordialogue with bishops from the United States and Latin America whoheard their calls for a more visible place in their church and country.Bishop Felipe Estévez, an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Miami,joined a delegation of 44 Miami Hispanic Catholic youth at this encuentro (gathering) held at the University of Notre Dame. Click here.

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