Seventy Catholic sisters, clergy and parishioners were arrested Thursday in the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington D.C. while protesting the Trump administration’s immigration policies and the current treatment of migrants in America. The hall atrium echoed with the Lord’s Prayer as protesters were handcuffed and led outside to be detained.
Saint Mary’s campus minister Fr. Steve Newton spent the “Catholic Day of Action” protesting the mistreatment of immigrant children, and was among those arrested at the Senate Office building. Newton said it was important that the protest be seen as an event specific to Catholics. Most clerical participants highlighted the Catholic identity of the demonstration by wearing religious vestments.
