Angelus News | June 30, 2023 | Vol. 8 No 13

LOCAL
■ Migrants sent by busload from Texas
to Los Angeles get Catholic help
More than 40 migrants unexpectedly sent by bus by Texas
Gov. Greg Abbott to Los Angeles’ Union Station on June
15 have found aid, relief, and support from several organizations,
including Catholic agencies.
Several of the migrants, including women and young children,
were taken to St. Anthony Croatian Catholic Church
near downtown LA and given food, medical assistance, and
legal resources.
Abbott and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass sparred over the
reasons behind the migrants being sent to LA.
“It is abhorrent that an American elected official is using
human beings as pawns in his cheap political games,” Los
Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said in a statement.
“Los Angeles is a major city that migrants seek to go to, particularly
now that its city leaders approved its self-declared
sanctuary city status,” Abbott said in a statement. “...Texas
will continue providing this much-needed relief until [President
Biden] steps up to do his job and secure the border.”
■ Pope appoints two new auxiliary
bishops for San Diego
Pope
Francis has
appointed
two immigrant
priests
to serve as
auxiliary
bishops in
San Diego.
Father
Michael
Pham, vicar
general of
the Diocese
of San
Diego, and Bishops-elect Michael Pham and Felipe Pulido. | DIOCESE OF
Father Felipe
Pulido,
SAN DIEGO
a priest of
the Diocese of Yakima, Washington, were introduced by
Cardinal Robert McElroy June 6 at a press conference in
San Diego, the same day their appointments were announced.
Pham, 56, fled Vietnam as a 13-year-old refugee in 1980
and was eventually sponsored by an American family in
Minnesota. Pulido, 53, was born and raised in a small town
near Mexico City and as a teenager moved to Washington,
where he worked in the fields with his family.
The two men will be ordained bishops at a Consecration
Mass in San Diego Sept. 28, the diocese announced. San
Diego’s other active auxiliary bishop, Ramon Bejarano, has
served in the diocese since 2020.
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A generous delivery — Msgr. Jay Cunnane, pastor of St. Cornelius Church
in Long Beach, Isaac Cuevas (second from left) director of Immigration and
Public Affairs for the LA Archdiocese, and other volunteers pose in front of the
donations collected for the second annual Father’s Day event at Cobina Posada del
Migrante Shelter in Mexicali, Mexico. Volunteers were set to deliver the personal
hygiene products, toiletries, and other supplies to the shelter, which currently
houses more than 150 migrant refugees. | ARCHDIOCESE OF LOS ANGELES
■ Nuncio pays tribute to Bishop
O’Connell at USCCB meeting
Pope Francis’ ambassador to the U.S. remembered late
Auxiliary Bishop David O’Connell of Los Angeles as “a model
of synodal service, combined with eucharistic charity” at a
gathering of the country’s bishops.
“Here was a shepherd who immersed himself in the reality
of his sheep, who walked with them, and was with them in
finding a way no matter the difficulty of their circumstances,”
said Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to
the U.S., of O’Connell in his speech at the U.S. Conference
of Catholic Bishops’ spring Plenary Assembly in Orlando
June 15.
“Since he followed the compass that always pointed him
to Christ, may he rejoice now at his destination; and may
his intercession help us, his brothers who are still on the
journey,” added Pierre to applause from the bishops.
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