Ella se encontraba entre los 80 católicos hispanos, en su mayoría inmigrantes, que procesionaron desde la parroquia Sacred Heart of Jesus/Sagrado Corazón de Jesús en Highlandtown, parroquia de la cual Mena es feligresa, hasta varias paradas mientras que cargaban cruces de madera, rezaban el viacrucis y reflexionaban sobre los testimonios de los inmigrantes sobre su llegada a un nuevo país.

As federal authorities announced Sept. 20 an all-time high for the number of apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico border — upward of 2 million — an annual immigration conference was taking place at Georgetown University’s Law Center campus in downtown Washington.

St. Pio of Pietrelcina did not boast of his fame or holiness but instead showed that God “chooses the weak to confuse the strong,” said Cardinal Seán P. O’Malley of Boston.

More than 80 Hispanic Catholics, mostly immigrants, processed from Sacred Heart of Jesus/Sagrado Corazón de Jesús in Highlandtown to various stops while carrying wooden crosses, praying the Stations of the Cross and reflecting on immigrants’ testimonies about arriving to a new country.

A judge issued a preliminary injunction Sept. 22 on a new Indiana abortion law that gives legal protection to most unborn babies.