News Coverage: Ash Wednesday Access to Broadview, Mass and Procession with Cardinal Cupich

“This is a day that speaks to those who live in the shadows,” Cardinal Blase Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago, told more than 3,500 faithful at a Mass attended by members of the Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership. Some 2,000 sat and stood in the courtyard outside Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, with 1,500 more inside the Sanctuary on Wednesday evening.

Earlier that afternoon, a small delegation of two priests and one sister had been granted access to the Broadview ICE facility, where they offered communion and ashes to detainees and guards inside. They noted the visible distress of the detainees when they interacted with them.

Media Coverage:

• Fox 32 Video: Faith leaders allowed inside Broadview ICE facility for Ash Wednesday

• National Catholic Reporter: 'God does not need papers': Cardinals spend Ash Wednesday with ICE detainees, their families

• Chicago Tribune: Faith leaders get access to ICE facility on Ash Wednesday

• Chicago Sun-Times: Faith leaders enter Broadview ICE facility on Ash Wednesday after judge's order

• OSV News: Pastoral care is finally allowed inside Chicago-area ICE facility — on Ash Wednesday

• Reuters: Catholic leaders bring communion to immigration detainees near Chicago after court win

• WTTW: After Court Ruling, Clergy Members Given Access to Broadview ICE Facility on Ash Wednesday

• America Magazine: Catholic leaders enter Chicago-area ICE facility on Ash Wednesday after months of denied access

• Chicago Catholic: Cardinal Cupich joins immigrant group for Ash Wednesday Mass

• The Spokesman-Review: Catholic leaders bring communion to immigration detainees near Chicago after court win

• America Magazine: Cardinal Tobin leads Ash Wednesday Masses inside New Jersey ICE facility

• Religion News Service: An Ash Wednesday 'mobilization' showed us a way out of our country's mess

• Independent Catholic News: Chicago: Ash Wednesday marked in ICE detention centre. Cardinal leads open-air Mass and procession

• Chicago Tribune: Screws tightening for immigrant detainees swept up in Operation Midway Blitz as arrests continue

• Commonweal: Ashes & Solidarity | A Chicago-area Mass shows how the form of liturgy can be adapted to confront the needs of this moment.

• Chicago Tribune: Screws tightening for immigrant detainees swept up in Operation Midway Blitz as arrests continue

• National Catholic Reporter: 'We were instruments of God for them,' priest says of ICE detention center service