New Mexican Bishop Installed: "I Come to Listen before Teaching"
A native of León, Guanajuato, Torres Campos was until then the Bishop of Ciudad Juárez and has ministered along Mexico’s northern border for the last eleven years. Many pictures on the internet show him in civilian clothes. Leo XIV has appointed a vocal advocate of immigration and a pastoral ideologue of "closeness2 and "acocompaniment".
Bishop Torres became known for his focus on migrants, including celebrating liturgical abuses in the middle of the Rio Grande border river. He was also committed to social outreach.
During the installation, Bishop Torres described the “synodal” style of ministry he will represent: "I come with the sincere desire to listen before speaking, to understand before deciding, and to love before asking. I want to be a bishop who is close to the people, a shepherd who is unafraid to approach human suffering, and a father who ensures that no one feels alone, forgotten or excluded from God's love or the life of the Church."
The bishop continued: We will walk together, listen to one another, and discern together what the Holy Spirit is asking of our diocesan Church.”
At the bishop’s installation, Mayor Cisneros Coss used the opportunity to propose a secular agenda: “Today we begin a new stage of dialogue, accompaniment, and peacebuilding”, he emphasised.
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