For all the statements the leadership of the US' largest religious body might issue, moments like these are the thing that'll actually be remembered.
After a quickly arranged whirlwind tour that ended up unfolding over two days (doubling the original plan), the USCCB executive – Cardinal Daniel DiNardo and Archbishop José Gomez – wrapped up their visit to separated immigrant families at the Southern Border with a press conference earlier tonight at the Rio Grande Valley's Basilica of San Juan de la Valle.
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With media access curtailed for most of today's stops at sites supervised by Federal agencies, according to the comments of the five-man delegation, the most intense leg of the trip was ostensibly the prelates' journey to Casa Padre – the former Wal-Mart converted into a particularly notorious shelter for some 1,500 boys separated from their parents – where they celebrated Mass for several hundred of the young detainees.
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