Karen Tumulty: The migrant bishop begging Americans to ‘have a heart’

As an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Washington, appointed by Pope Francis in late 2022, Evelio Menjivar-Ayala is among the most exalted ranks of the Catholic Church. He is addressed as “your excellency”. But 35 years ago, he was a 19-year-old fleeing for his life from a war-torn mountain village in El Salvador, desperate enough to be smuggled across the US-Mexico border illegally in the trunk of a car.

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