Archbishop of San Antonio warns of “a culture of death”

Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller spoke at a memorial Mass on Thursday at San Fernando Cathedral in San Antonio. Left to right were the flags of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico, whose citizens were among the 53 who died in a migrant-smuggling tragedy three days earlier. (Credit: Sergio Flores for The Texas Tribune)

The Guatemalan teenager gave the priest her name: Serenidad.

They met on Tuesday morning at a children’s hospital in San Antonio, where the priest, Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller, had arrived to comfort one of the youngest survivors of the deadliest migrant-trafficking tragedy in modern American history.