{"id":207070,"date":"2026-03-16T17:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T17:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/207070\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T17:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T17:41:07","slug":"el-paso-bishop-releases-pastoral-letter-on-mass-detention-deportations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/207070\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso bishop releases pastoral letter on mass detention, deportations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 As El Paso braces for the impact of mass detention and mass deportations, Bishop Mark J. Seitz of the Diocese of El Paso delivered a pastoral message aimed at people across the community, including migrants, their families, U.S. citizens and law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>The message was released Sunday at St. Patrick\u2019s Cathedral in El Paso. <\/p>\n<p>The diocese said it is the first pastoral letter released by a Catholic bishop on the topic of mass detention and mass deportations in El Paso.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full letter below: <\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/abuse-litigation-and-operating-deficits-push-el-paso-catholic-diocese-into-chapter-11?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">El Paso Catholic Diocese files for Bankruptcy Chapter 11 amid claims of sexual abuse<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (1)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 As El Paso braces for the impact of mass detention and mass deportations,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-207070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}