From Crux-Two weeks after the surprising election of Donald Trump on November 8, 2016, Bishop Mark Seitz convened the priests of his border diocese of El Paso, Texas.
“There was a great deal of fear because of all of the rhetoric,” he told Crux. “I was receiving calls from teachers asking what do I say to my schoolchildren that are coming to school crying and some of them are having panic attacks…There was a lot of fear and it began from the day of the election.”
“At that time we began to think about what we should be doing as a Church and what we could do,” Seitz recalled.
“To be honest with you, we were feeling kind of helpless…We couldn’t go to the people and say ‘don’t worry, there’s nothing to worry about.’ We really asked ourselves what can we say? What can we do?”
At that meeting his priests suggested the formation of a diocesan committee that could rapidly respond to decisions being made in Austin, the state’s capital, and in Washington, D.C.
More here-
https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-usa/2017/11/08/one-year-election-trump-u-s-bishops-shift-focus/
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