Evelio Menjivar-Ayala speaking during a recent Festival of Faiths conference. Pope Leo has appointed a former illegal alien to lead the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston in West Virginia. Evelio Menjivar-Ayala, 55, is a former illegal alien who entered the United States as a teenager after being smuggled into the country. He later obtained legal status and became a U.S. citizen in 2006. He had been serving as an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Washington and will replace retiring Bishop Mark Brennan. Menjivar-Ayala has publicly criticized the Trump administration’s policy of mass deportations and is well known for his progressive posturing. In a recent column, he wrote: “To those of you who are silent or think this does not involve you… I ask you: Do you…
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