Fear of Trump pledges linger at Our Lady of Guadalupe feast
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From small parishes to big cathedrals, Catholics observing the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the U.S. say the celebration is taking on a different tone this year.
Heckel Villa (VEE-yah) works and worships at a suburban Chicago shrine for Mexico's revered patron saint. She says people are afraid because of President-elect Donald Trump's aggressive approach to immigration.
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops urged churches to make Monday's holiday a "day of prayer" in solidarity with immigrants and their families. The issue came up during Mass in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles and the University of Notre Dame.
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The feast marks the time when millions make the pilgrimage to a Mexican basilica to honor the virgin believed to have appeared to an Indian peasant in 1531.