“You Are Not Alone” — Pope Leo XIV Sends the U.S. Bishops’ Migration Chief to Joliet

Bishop Brendan Cahill, the U.S. bishops’ migration chairman, inherits a see vacant since February; Cardinal Cupich hailed his “migrant justice.” Three of Leo’s first four U.S. bishops were immigrants.

Bishop Brendan J. Cahill of Victoria, Texas, waves as he processes out of Sts. Cyril and Methodius Church in Dubina, Texas, on Feb. 14, 2022. Pope Leo XIV named him the seventh bishop of Joliet, Illinois, on Sept. 17, 2026. (Janet Jones / The Catholic Lighthouse via OSV News)

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