Washington Auxiliary Bishop Evelio Menjivar, at center, helps lead a procession on Sept. 28, 2025 to mark the 111th World Day of Migrants and Refugees. The procession began at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart in Washington and concluded at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, where Cardinal Robert W. McElroy celebrated a Mass marking that day. (Catholic Standard photo by Mihoko Owada)
Ciara Gallagher, at left, a student from The Catholic University of America, joins other singers and musicians in helping to lead the singing of “Somos El Cuerpo De Cristo/We Are the Body of Christ” before a procession commemorating the 111th World Day of Migrants and Refugees on Sept. 28, 2025. The procession began at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart in Washington and concluded at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, where Cardinal Robert W. McElroy celebrated a Mass marking that day. (Catholic Standard photo by Mihoko Owada)
People walk in a procession for the 111th World Day of Migrants and Refugees on Sept. 28, 2025 that began at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart in Washington, D.C., wound down 16th Street, and concluded at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle. (Catholic Standard photos by Mihoko Owada)
People walk in a procession for the 111th World Day of Migrants and Refugees on Sept. 28, 2025 that began at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart in Washington, D.C., wound down 16th Street, and concluded at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle. (Catholic Standard photo by Mihoko Owada)
Family members walk in a procession for the 111th World Day of Migrants and Refugees on Sept. 28, 2025 that began at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart in Washington, D.C., wound down 16th Street, and concluded at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle. (Catholic Standard photos by Mihoko Owada)
At the conclusion of a procession on Sep.28, 2025 to mark the 111th World Day of Migrants and Refugees, Washington Auxiliary Bishop Evelio Menjivar, at left, gives a reflection in front of the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle. (Catholic Standard photo by Mihoko Owada)
People attend a Mass marking the 111th World Day of Migrants and Refugees on Sept. 28, 2025 at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, D.C. (Catholic Standard photo by Mihoko Owada)
Washington Cardinal Robert W. McElroy gives the homily at a Mass marking the 111th World Day of Migrants and Refugees on Sept. 28, 2025 at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle. (Catholic Standard photo by Mihoko Owada)
People in the congregation give Cardinal Robert W. McElroy a standing ovation after he finishes his homily during the Mass for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees celebrated at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington on Sept. 28, 2025. (Catholic Standard photo by Mihoko Owada)
During a Mass marking the 111th World Day of Migrants and Refugees on Sept. 28, 2025 at St. Matthew’s Cathedral, Washington Cardinal Robert W. McElroy, at right, receives offertory gifts from the family of Oscar Ramos and Ludis Ulloa of the Shrine of the Sacred Heart. In the photo, Ludis Ulloa hands an offertory gift to the cardinal. Following her at center is her husband Oscar Ramos, and at left are their sons Jaziel Ramos Ulloa, who is 6, and Oscar Ramos Ulloa, who is 13. (Catholic Standard photo by Mihoko Owada)
People attend a Mass marking the 111th World Day of Migrants and Refugees on Sept. 28, 2025 at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, D.C. (Catholic Standard photo by Mihoko Owada)
People applaud Washington Cardinal Robert W. McElroy as he processes from the altar after celebrating a Mass marking the 111th World Day of Migrants and Refugees on Sept. 28, 2025 at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, D.C. In his homily, the cardinal said that Jesus’s Parable of the Good Samaritan should guide people today in seeing undocumented immigrants as their neighbors. (Catholic Standard photos by Mihoko Owada)
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