Email from USCCB Happy National Migration Week! Justice for Immigrants Biweekly Review: September 15-26, 2025 Celebrating 20 years of JFI! “Through prayer, encounter, and civic engagement, we can transform fear into compassion and create a world where no one feels less than human because of their immigration status. May the Holy Spirit guide us in this mission of solidarity, and may Mother Cabrini pray for us as we aspire to her example." -Bishop Mark Seitz Updates and Resources Happy, National Migration Week! September 22-28, 2025 Thank you for celebrating National Migration Week (NMW) with us! Here is the USCCB's press release. Here are the Justice for Immigrants’ NMW page and toolkit. Throughout NMW, we are posting daily on social media (Instagram, X, Facebook, Tiktok) with themes related to migration and share interviews with bishops. We would appreciate it if you would reshare these posts and videos. NEW – The Cabrini Pledge (in English, in Spanish) This pledge serves a reminder of our Church and nation’s immigrant heritage and a call to deeper engagement with our faith in response to current events. Together, like Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, we can be keepers of hope. Please sign and share this pledge. Bishop Seitz introduces the pledge: ICYMI – Deportations and Assaults on Human Dignity Catholic bishops, academic and policy experts, and community leaders discussed how Catholic social teaching can guide responses to the current immigration situation. This panel featured USCCB Committee on Migration chairman Bishop Seitz, Archbishop Jose Gomez, Archbishop Thomas Wenski, and Bishop Evelio Menjivar-Ayala. Watch the recording. Missionaries of Hope In honor of this year's theme for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees we will share hopeful articles, homilies, and videos in each newsletter. Click here to read Pope Leo's message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees. 'The Cabrini Pledge' calls faithful to be keepers of hope for migrants and refugees, OSV News: "In addition to offering resources — including USCCB documents on Catholic social teaching, prayers, and information about migration policies — the actions the pledge invites people to take include 'to affirm, in word and deed, the inherent dignity of every person, regardless of immigration status or country of origin, seeing each as a child of God before all else.'” For National Migration Week, bishops call for solidarity with immigrants amid ‘fear, anxiety’, OSV News: "Catholic social teaching on immigration seeks to balance three interrelated principles — the right of persons to migrate in order to sustain their lives and those of their families; the right of a country to regulate its borders and control immigration; but also a nation’s duty to regulate its borders with justice and mercy." Migrants are not enemies, just brothers and sisters in need, Pope says, OSV News: "'So much fear, so many prejudices, so many walls — even invisible ones — exist between us and between our peoples, as consequences of a wounded history.' While fear and evil can be passed from one generation to the next, he said, so can goodness. 'We must repair what has been broken, delicately treat bleeding memories, draw close to one another with patience, put ourselves in the place of others’ stories and suffering, and recognize that we share the same dreams and the same hopes,' Pope Leo said. 'There are no enemies — only brothers and sisters. This is the culture of reconciliation.'" Catholic bishops call immigration crackdown a 'category 4 storm', Religious News Service: "'What I’m hearing from people and seeing in people’s eyes is fear,' said Washington Auxiliary Bishop Evelio Menjivar-Ayala during the public roundtable. They’re also feeling confusion and questioning, he said, asking themselves, 'Where do we go from here? If we are not welcome, if we cannot find a safe place, if we cannot find a home here, where do we go from here?'” Reflection Procession & Mass to Commemorate the 111th World Day of Migrants and Refugees: On Sunday, September 28, the Archdiocese of Washington will hold a 2:30 p.m. prayer procession from the Shrine of the Sacred Heart to the Cathedral of Saint Matthew the Apostle, followed by a 5:30 p.m. Mass that invite participants to walk and pray in solidarity with migrants and refugees. If you are in or near DC, please join! One Church, One Family: Catholic Public Witness for Immigrants: On October 22 and November 13, 2025, Catholics across the U.S. are invited to join in a national day of public witness for our immigrant brothers and sisters. This effort builds on the binational mass at the U.S.-Mexico Border in San Luis, just 10 days earlier, in which Bishops from both countries will call attention to the urgent crisis facing migrants. Register public witness here. Welcomer of the week: Bishop Seitz shares, "It amazes me to see how the truth can be distorted when the Church which has been a primary xxxxxx of protection for vulnerable people...is now accused of facilitating their trafficking."   Share & Stay Connected Visit the JFI website, follow us on X and Instagram, or email us! For more frequent news, sign up for CLINIC's daily updates.   USCCB | 3211 Fourth Street NE | Washington, DC 20017 US Unsubscribe | Update Profile | Constant Contact Data Notice