Established since 1986
Catholic Migrant Farmworker Network
Amid today’s anti-immigrant climate, we remain a Pilgrim and Prophetic Church — walking alongside and proclaiming Christ at the margins, especially among farmworker communities.
A Legacy of Faith, Justice, and Accompaniment
"Dear migrants, before saying anything else to you,I want to bow before your dignity, You are not just numbers or files.You are people who have left behind families and homes.You have dreams that no one has the right to despise."~ Pope Leo XIV
America Magazine
THE JESUIT REVIEW
Migrant farmworkers are lonely and scared. This Jesuit leads a ministry to serve them
In a large field in Michigan, spring has arrived. After a long, cold winter, the sweet cherry trees are beginning to bud, and the strawberries will soon ripen. Beneath a tall, bare silver maple sit five migrant farm workers, several members of the clergy and some laypeople who have come to visit this camp to eat together and talk.
The visitors are from the Sembrador Leadership Program, (which in Spanish means “seed planter”), a program started by Tom Florek, S.J., under the umbrella of the Catholic Migrant Farmworker Network. The 75-year-old Jesuit is the executive director of the C.M.F.N., a national nonprofit made up of 40 dioceses that minister to the thousands of people who grow our food, raise our farm animals and milk our cows. ...
March 31, formerly César Chavez Day, is now Farmworkers Day in California
Our hearts are deeply grieved by the stories of women who suffered abuse at the hands of Cesar Chavez, some at a very young age. Their voices carry a pain that must be received with reverence—heard, believed, and honored. The suffering they have borne, often in silence for many years, is a profound injustice, and we stand with them in sorrow, in solidarity, and in prayer.
More US bishops condemn political tension, Trump immigration tactics
National Catholic Reporter 2026
Elizabeth Anne Jolly holds a sign as she protests hours after 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, returned home after a judge ordered them to be released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, Feb. 1. (OSV News/Reuters/Kaylee Greenlee)
Pope calls treatment of migrants in U.S. 'extremely disrespectful'
Pope Leo XIV said the U.S. bishops' special pastoral message on immigration is "a very important statement. I would invite especially all Catholics, but people of goodwill, to listen carefully to what they said."
Pope Leo XIV blesses Bishop Mark J. Seitz, left, and Auxiliary Bishop Anthony C. Celino of El Paso, right, along with representatives of the Hope Border Institute and others who assist migrants in the United States during a private meeting at the Vatican Oct. 8, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
CMFN Marching Forward
Bishop Luis and the Diocese of Raleigh invites CMFN Sembrador Parish Formation Program for Farmworker accompaniment.
