First Friday Forum attendees learn about the Church’s perspective on immigration

Attendees of the First Friday Forum of Lorain County were given food for thought as Notre Dame Sister Rita Mary Harwood, Secretariat for Parish Life and Development for the Diocese of Cleveland, and Camille Gill, managing attorney, Immigration Legal Services for Catholic Charities, Diocese of Cleveland, discussed immigration through the eyes and heart of the Church.

Sister Rita Mary focused on the theological perspective, while Gill spoke from the legal perspective and debunked a few myths about immigrants and the immigration process.

For 104 years, at the pope?s request, Sister said Catholics have celebrated the International Day of Migrants and Refugees. The timing -- near the Feast of the Epiphany, when Joseph took Mary and Jesus to Egypt out of fear for Jesus? life