“In the face of this emergency, our first duty must be to protect these children. My brothers and sisters, what we are doing for these children as a church? It’s not about politics. We all know that. It’s about who we are as Catholics.”
— Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles, during a July 20 homily in which he talked about the humanitarian crisis of tens of thousands of unaccompanied migrant children surging across the U.S.-Mexico border