Parishioners of the Diocese of Las Cruces and El Paso joined Las Cruces Bishop, Peter Baldacchino in a one-day pilgrimage where they hiked up Mount Cristo Rey.<\/p>\n
This is in response to the Trump administration wanting to seize 14 acres of land to build the border wall. Bishop Baldacchino said this is not a political event, it’s a pilgrimage of prayer.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday’s mass is a prayer made visible. That the church will be one and that civil leaders will defend religious liberty.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Trump administration filed a lawsuit in a federal court in New Mexico against the Diocese of Las Cruces. The border wall will not block pilgrims from climbing up the mountain and visiting the statue.<\/p>\n
In a letter, Official Baldacchino said, \u201cThe spiritual value of this site cannot be compromised by politics or financial gain.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parishioners of the Diocese of Las Cruces and El Paso joined Las Cruces Bishop, Peter Baldacchino in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-356115","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\/356115","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=356115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}