In the News ... "Pope Francis calls El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz, offering support for George Floyd memorial"

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• "I felt it was imperative to show our solidarity to those who are suffering"

By Felix F. Chavez, Reporter
• El Paso Times

EL PASO, TEXAS - Bishop Mark J. Seitz's act of kneeling in prayer for eight minutes and 46 seconds to remember George Floyd earned an appreciative call from Pope Francis on Wednesday.

The bishop and and priests from the El Paso Catholic Diocese prayed for Floyd, a black man who died after a Minneapolis police officer knelt for more than eight minutes on his neck during an arrest, on Monday night in Memorial Park. Floyd repeatedly cried out and said he couldn't breathe ...

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