JRS/USA Backs D.C. Procession for Migrants | The Washington Post

29 September 2025|Jasmine Golden - The Washington Post

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D.C. archbishop calls U.S. immigration crackdown a ‘governmental assault’

The reflection procession and Mass were co-organized by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington and Jesuit Refugee Service, drawing hundreds in support of migrants and refugees on Sept. 29, 2025.

Hundreds packed into the wooden pews of the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in downtown Washington for Sunday evening Mass.

The sanctuary, which seats about 1,000, was so full that attendees squeezed next to each other in overflow seating. Sunday’s order of service, with its introductory rites and liturgy of the Word, flowed into the homily as any other might, but on this night, the message was much more pointed.

For the next ten minutes, Cardinal Robert McElroy, archbishop of Washington, decried the immigration policies of President Donald Trump’s White House, located just blocks away, likening them to an “assault” that “seeks to make life unbearable for undocumented immigrants.”

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