Miami archbishop asks to hold Mass at Alligator Alcatraz. ‘Still waiting’ for answer

Miami’s top Catholic leader stopped by the state’s controversial Everglades detention center for migrants during a Sunday motorcycle ride with dozens of other Catholic bikers.

Archbishop Thomas Wenski visited ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ Florida’s new migrant detention center located in an isolated airstrip near the Big Cypress National Preserve, to pray for for detainees. But the entrance of the facility is as far as he was able to go without approval from officials.

“Sunday PM about 25 Knights on Bikes stopped at entrance of Alligator Alcatraz and prayed a rosary for the detainees,” Wenski wrote on a post on X. “Archdiocese is still waiting for approval to access to provide Mass for detainees.”…

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