Father Emilio Biosca’s heavily Salvadoran Mount Pleasant parish has lost more than forty members to ICE detention and deportation since August. Now Pope Leo XIV is sending him to lead a Florida diocese in the heart of Trump-DeSantis country.
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For the better part of a year, Father Emilio Biosca Agüero has been watching his parishioners disappear.
The Shrine of the Sacred Heart, the Capuchin-run parish in D.C.’s Mount Pleasant neighborh…






















