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News Briefs

HIGHLIGHTS

Developing leaders
With a Henry Luce
Foundation grant,
Catholic Extension
is creating a unique
theological program,
in conjunction with the
Mexican American
Catholic College
in San Antonio, to
educate 70 emerging
Hispanic leaders who
will continue to play a
key role in the Church.

Online Mass Guatemalan cardinal comforts immigrants
Every Sunday, we
offer a weekly online
Mass, recorded in an Álvaro Ramazzini, cardinal of the Catholic Church in Guatemala,
Extension Diocese, recently visited immigrant families in Morton, Mississippi, who
on our website at
catholicextension.org/ are still reeling from last year’s largest statewide ICE raid in U.S.
onlinemass.
history when 680 residents were detained or deported without
#catholicsolidarity notice, leaving families devastated.
As we all endure
the immediate and The immigrants, primarily from Guatemala, have lived and
longterm impacts worked in this area for years. Catholic Extension has long sup-
of COVID-19, join
us on social media ported the parishes of these immigrants and provided outreach
using the hashtag ministries to keep them close to the Church. Catholic Extension
#catholicsolidarity.
was proud to sponsor the cardinal’s visit to the areas hit hardest

by the raids. He offered solace and hope to the hurting families
and assured them that they were not alone.

Catholic Extension is helping immigrant families in desperate
circumstances through our Holy Family Fund. For more informa-

tion, please visit catholicextension.org/holy-family-fund.