2026 OneLife LA: ‘Everyone is a blessing’

When Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, Texas, took his turn to speak at this year’s OneLife LA event, he chose to bring up a painful subject: his father.

Seitz said his father walked away from him and his nine other siblings in 1976 and stayed away for 40 years, resurfacing when he needed care in the last years of his life.

Caring for an elderly parent can be frustrating, exhausting, and awkward. For Seitz, the estrangement made it even more difficult. But in describing how he and his siblings put that aside to care for their dad until his death at age 93, Seitz sought to make a deeper point about the mission to protect human dignity.

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