U.S. cardinal says he hopes U.S. will admit more Iraqi refugees

Published: 2007-07-13

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The retired archbishop of Washington said he hopes the United States will admit more refugees from Iraq. "The United States is starting to receive" refugees from Iraq, but "I hope they will accept more," Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick told Catholic News Service July 13 in a telephone interview from Beirut, Lebanon, where he was touring Middle Eastern host countries of Iraqi refugees. He was part a delegation that included Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn, N.Y., officials from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the International Catholic Migration Commission and the U.S. bishops' Catholic Relief Services. Cardinal McCarrick and Bishop DiMarzio are consultants to the U.S. bishops' Committee on Migration. The delegation began its tour in Istanbul, Turkey, July 2; Cardinal McCarrick joined the group in Amman, Jordan, July 9. The delegation also visited Syria.

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