U.S. Catholic bishops - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 22 Jun 2020 05:03:52 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg U.S. Catholic bishops - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 US Catholic bishops ask Catholics to pray for Brownsville diocese border wall fight https://cathnews.co.nz/2020/06/22/us-catholic-bishops-brownsville-border-wall/ Mon, 22 Jun 2020 07:50:24 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=127995 For Religious Freedom Week 2020, the U.S. Catholic bishops are highlighting an unusual case—a Texas chapel that could be demolished or cut off by construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall. The historic La Lomita Chapel in Mission, Texas, built in 1865 and owned by the Diocese of Brownsville, is administered by the nearby Our Lady Read more

US Catholic bishops ask Catholics to pray for Brownsville diocese border wall fight... Read more]]> For Religious Freedom Week 2020, the U.S. Catholic bishops are highlighting an unusual case—a Texas chapel that could be demolished or cut off by construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall.

The historic La Lomita Chapel in Mission, Texas, built in 1865 and owned by the Diocese of Brownsville, is administered by the nearby Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church. In 2018, the Trump administration informed the diocese that it planned to survey the property where the chapel is located to possibly construct the U.S.-Mexico border wall on the property.

The Diocese of Brownsville has fought the construction and the surveying of the land in court, and on June 26, during Religious Freedom Week, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) will ask Catholics to pray for their case. Read more

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