President of the USCCB identifies immigration as a “burning issue”

Archbishop Paul Coakley has stressed that the plight of migrants remains at the heart of the American bishops’ agenda in a wide-ranging interview.

In an interview with Vatican News following his election as president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), he identified immigration as “a burning issue” for the Church in the United States.

He recalled that the country is a nation “built on migration experience” and insisted the bishops must accompany and support immigrant communities as they face fear and uncertainty.