LA Cardinal calls on Catholics to pray for illegal immigrants

“Speaking with a sense of urgency, Cardinal Roger Mahony called on Catholics Wednesday to pray the U.S. Senate passes legislation paving the way for some 12 million illegal immigrants to gain citizenship.

Mahony, who last month promised to instruct his priests to defy a House bill that would make helping illegal immigrants a crime, told about 1,000 people during a special noon Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels that this “was one of the most critical weeks in the history of our country.” “

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