CHICAGO (OSV News) — A group of clergy and religious, and a Catholic social justice organization filed a lawsuit Nov. 19 against the Trump administration over being barred from bringing holy Communion and pastoral care to detainees at an immigration processing center just west of Chicago. The Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership, which has organized Masses and a Eucharistic procession in support of migrants without legal authorization to be in the country, along with three priests and a religious sister, submitted the lawsuit to the U.S. District Court of Northern Illinois. The complaint describes Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s “complete denial” of the group’s “rights to practice their religion at a detention center in Broadview, Illinois, without such denial serving any compelling governmental interest and without allowing such practice under the least restrictive means for serving any governmental interest in safety and security at the detention facility.” Broadview is a suburb 12.5 miles west of downtown Chicago. The group claimed their rights under the First Amendment, Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the Religious Lands Use and Institutionalized Persons A
