National immigrant advocates pray at Broadview detention center

Royal Berg, an immigration attorney, speaks to the group about the immigration policies at the Detention Center. Representatives from the National Pastoral Migratoria Institute pray the rosary at the Immigration Customs Enforcement Detention Center in Broadview on July 25, 2025. The institute hosted representatives from 11 dioceses July 24-26 at Catholic Theological Union. The theme for this year’s institute was “Hope Does Not Disappoint.” The institute brings together diocesan staff and parish leaders as a national community to seek ways to serve our immigrant sisters and brothers through grassroots leadership. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)

Institute attendees pray the rosary. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)

Institute attendees pray the rosary. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)

Institute attendees pray the rosary. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)

Claudia Sadowski from the Diocese of Gary, Indiana, prays a decade of the rosary. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)

Elena Segura, director of the Office of Immigrant Affairs at Archdiocese of Chicago, listens to others speak. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)

Segura, Father Greg Walghenbach of the Diocese of Orange, and Janet Hernandez of the Archdiocese of New York, lead a decade of the rosary. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)

Walghenbach leads a decade of the rosary. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)

Representatives from the National Pastoral Migratoria Institute pray the Our Father at the end of the service. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)