Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, Texas, was a priest and auxiliary bishop in Dallas before taking his present post in May 2013, and in a state boasting the second-highest number of electoral college votes in the country in every presidential election, he understands a thing or two about politics.
Perhaps that’s why Seitz avoids a straight “yes” or “no” when asked if Pope Francis is making a political point by coming to the US/Mexico border on Feb. 17, where at one stage he’ll stand about 65 yards away from the barrier separating Seitz’s diocese from neighboring Ciudad Juárez.
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