Bishop Alvaro Ramazzini of San Marcos, Guatemala, an internationally known human rights spokesman, will give two talks on issues of immigration and facilitate a dialogue on what we can do in the Cleveland area. Available to us that day will be representatives from the Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLINIC) and from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Justice for Immigrants Project.

The issue of immigration is presently one of great complexity and great emotion. There are no easy fixes, no facile solutions to a problem which has been building for many decades. Before we can begin to educate our church members and provide opportunities for growth in consciousness on this issue, we need to educate and sensitize ourselves.