Joshua McElwee

We're seeing the leader of the Catholic Church, a church of 1.4 billion people around the world, speak specifically about the United States and even more than that, speak specifically about, you know, immigration detention facilities by ICE, by the Department of Homeland Security.

He spoke about how he went to a facility in El Paso run by ICE where many migrants are being held.

And they were able to get access to give those migrants Holy Communion.

And the very emotional state of doing that and migrants crying as, you know, they had been separated from families, not able to receive communion, not able to have any contact with the outside world, but were able to receive this communion, able to have this moment of religious experience.

He's Archbishop Paul Coakley from Oklahoma City.

He's an advisor for a conservative Catholic think tank called the Napa Institute, which is very well funded and had been openly critical of Pope Francis for some of his initiatives over his 12-year papacy.

Just because he's associated with that one institute doesn't necessarily mean that's all he thinks about or all he's going to be doing.

But it is interesting that in this moment they've elected someone who is clearly tied to a more conservative movement.