Budget Reconciliation Package should provide relief, not additional burdens on those struggling.

"I look up to him a lot," said Maximilian Glamuzina, 14, noting he is particularly inspired by Carlo's use of technology to glorify God, especially his website dedicated to Eucharistic miracles.

The pilgrimage's final event is a Corpus Christi celebration including Mass, a Eucharistic procession, and a festival in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, organizers said.

If enacted, the RWPA would rely on precedent in existing law to provide flexibility to foreign-born religious workers and their employers in the United States who are confronted by an expanded backlog in the employment-based, fourth preference (EB-4) visa category.

The private meeting lasted about 20 minutes and included an exchange of gifts, a source said.