Diocese calls plans for border wall near shrine ‘offensive to Catholic values and teachings’

Court filing seeks to halt federal plans to seize property through eminent domain

Pilgrims walk to the top of the summit of Mount Cristo Rey in 2010. MJCdetroit photo; distributed with CC-BY-SA-3.0 license via Wikimedia Commons.

Calling a proposed section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall “offensive to Catholic values and teachings,” a Catholic diocese has gone to court to block the Trump administration from using its power of eminent do…