MCC from the Capitol

Immigration Through a Catholic Lens

MCC from the Capitol

Show Notes

Recently, Dr. Guillermo Villa-Trueba, Hispanic Outreach Manager at the MCC, spoke with Dr. Javier Orozco, Executive Director of Human Dignity and Intercultural Affairs for the Archdiocese of St. Louis, and Sister Tracey Horan, Associate Director of Education and Advocacy at the Kino Border Initiative, about the different ways in which Catholics can serve our immigrant brothers and sisters. They shared their experiences at the Southern Border, in pastoral ministry at the archdiocesan level, an...

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