On Corpus Christi, US parishes show solidarity with migrants, refugees and urge their protection

Bishop Evelio Menjivar-Ayala carries the Eucharist during a Corpus Christi procession from the Shrine of the Sacred Heart to the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle June 7, 2026, in Washington. (OSV News/Catholic Standard/Mihoko Owada)

The noonday sun shone over Columbia Heights in Northwest Washington as people moved between corner markets and families pushed strollers past Salvadoran pupuserías, Dominican and Mexican restaurants, pho shops and fruit vendors shaded beneath bright umbrellas.

In that same neighborhood, every pew inside the Shrine of the Sacred Heart was filled June 7 as worshippers gathered beneath mosaic-covered walls where immigrants have prayed for more than a century.

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