El Paso

Statue of Jesus in El Paso cathedral beheaded by vandal
- Sep 16, 2020
A 90-year-old statue in El Paso’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral was destroyed by a vandal on Tuesday morning.

By Crux Staff
El Paso mourns, but heals still from mass shooting one year later
- Aug 8, 2020
The people of El Paso, Texas, did the best they could, under extraordinary circumstances, to remember the 23 lives taken after the bloody event that summer day a year ago.

By Rhina Guidos
Calling out racism, El Paso bishop forms commission a year after massacre
- Aug 4, 2020
Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso announced the formation of a commission to examine ways that may lead to the eradication of the hate that prompted the attack taking the lives of the 23 El Pasoans and wounding another 25 victims.

By Rhina Guidos

Asylum at the border is ‘effectively over,’ El Paso bishop says
- Jun 27, 2020
After visiting a group of pregnant migrant women on the Mexico side of the border, Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, issued strong words June 25 about the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” program and other restrictive immigration measures, saying that turning away those seeking asylum in the U.S. amounts to sending them to their death.

By Rhina Guidos

Catholic priest performs Last Rites amid COVID-19
- Jun 14, 2020
EL PASO, Texas — Father Michael Lewis peered through the glass walls of the ICU, clutching his prayer book. “It’s COVID-19,” said the nurse on duty at University Medical Center. “You really shouldn’t go in there.” He paused. It was the early days of the pandemic that has robbed the

By Lauren Villagran, EL Paso Times
Pope Francis sends rosaries for mass shooting victims in El Paso
- Feb 5, 2020
During a January visit with Vatican officials to report on the status of his diocese, Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, mentioned to Pope Francis the tragic events that took place at home Aug. 3, 2019.

By Rhina Guidos
Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy expanded now to include Brazilians
- Feb 4, 2020
By requiring Brazilians seeking asylum in the United States to stay in Mexico while their immigration cases are reviewed is an unacceptable expansion of the Trump administration’s already “indefensible program,” said a Catholic bishop who heads a Texas border diocese.

By Catholic News Service
Immigration advocates take part in teach-in event at U.S.-Mexico border
- Oct 17, 2019
Catholic Latino organizers, labor leaders, scholars and activists took part in a social justice event that was a combination teach-in and demand for action Oct. 11-13 in El Paso.

By Catholic News Service