Posted April 2, 2014

Catholic bishops from the United States got a first-hand look at the journey of immigrants across the border in Nogales, Arizona during a visit March 31. Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley led his brother bishops in the celebration of Mass for hundreds of Catholics on each side of the border, separated by a fence, April 1. (CNS photos by Nancy Wiechec)

  • A woman in Mexico peers through the slats of the border fence as a group of U.S. bishops celebrate Mass in Nogales, Ariz., April 1. (CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec)

  • U.S. Border Patrol vehicles carrying representatives of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops travel along the fence separating Mexico and the U.S. March 31 near Nogales, Ariz. (CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec)

  • A U.S. Border Patrol agent in Nogales, Ariz., March 31 shows a group of U.S. bishops an improvised ladder immigrants use to make their way unlawfully over the U.S.-Mexico border fence. (CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec)

  • A hot morning sun beats down as a group of U.S. bishops walks the Arizona desert about 30 miles north of Nogales March 31. (CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec)

  • A group of U.S. bishops makes their way to the Aid Center for Deported Migrants in Nogales, Mexico, March 31. (CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec)

  • Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas of Tucson, Ariz., blesses people on the Mexican side as he distributes Communion through the border fence in Nogales, Ariz., April 1. (CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec)

  • Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, takes a photo of the border fence near Nogales, Ariz., March 31. (CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec)

  • People pray during Mass celebrated by a group of U.S. bishops at the border fence in Nogales, Ariz., April 1. (CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec)

  • Bishop Oscar Cantu of Las Cruces, N.M., ducks under a barbed wire fence as a group of U.S. bishops tours an area of the Arizona desert north of Nogales March 31. (CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec)

  • Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston and Auxiliary Bishop Eusebio Elizondo of Seattle are seen during Mass at the border fence in Nogales, Ariz., April 1. (CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec)

  • Auxiliary Bishop Luis R. Zarama of Atlanta talks with men in the dining room of the Aid Center for Deported Migrants in Nogales, Mexico, March 31. (CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec)

  • Auxiliary Bishop Luis R. Zarama of Atlanta serves juice to men at the Aid Center for Deported Migrants in Nogales, Mexico, March 31. (CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec)