Pope meets with Chicago union leaders, urges migrant welcome as crackdown underway in hometown
Read full article: Pope meets with Chicago union leaders, urges migrant welcome as crackdown underway in hometownPope Leo XIV has urged labor union leaders from Chicago to advocate for immigrants and welcome minorities into their ranks.
El Paso bishop brings Pope Leo XIV desperate letters from migrants in crosshairs of US crackdown
Read full article: El Paso bishop brings Pope Leo XIV desperate letters from migrants in crosshairs of US crackdownThe Texas bishop on the front lines of the U.S. immigration crackdown has met with Pope Leo XIV in the Vatican.
US Catholic bishops decry Trump's immigration raids upending church life
Read full article: US Catholic bishops decry Trump's immigration raids upending church lifeSome of the highest-ranking U.S. Catholic bishops and nuns on the front lines of America’s immigration conflict gathered in Washington to decry the Trump administration’s hard-line policies.
Most immigrants at risk of deportation from US are Christian, report finds
Read full article: Most immigrants at risk of deportation from US are Christian, report findsAs many as four in five immigrants at risk of deportation from the United States are Christian, according to a new report that calls on their fellow believers to consider the impact of aggressive deportation policies pursued under the Trump administration.
Trump won't ban immigration arrests at churches. Now clergy are weighing how to resist
Read full article: Trump won't ban immigration arrests at churches. Now clergy are weighing how to resistNumerous faith leaders across the U.S. say the immigration crackdown launched by President Donald Trump’s new administration has sown fear within their migrant-friendly congregations.
As US Catholic bishops meet, Trump looms over their work on abortion and immigration
Read full article: As US Catholic bishops meet, Trump looms over their work on abortion and immigrationAs U.S. Catholic bishops gather for their annual fall meeting this week in Baltimore, the specter of President-elect Donald Trump’s resounding victory hangs over the proceedings.
Catholic diocese sues US government, worried some foreign-born priests might be forced to leave
Read full article: Catholic diocese sues US government, worried some foreign-born priests might be forced to leaveFor more than a year, religious organizations have lobbied Congress and the Biden administration to fix a sudden procedural change in how the government processes green cards for religious workers from abroad.
Top US bishop worries Catholic border services for migrants might be imperiled by government action
Read full article: Top US bishop worries Catholic border services for migrants might be imperiled by government actionA top U.S. bishop says government officials would be infringing on religious freedom if they were to restrict the Catholic Church’s work serving migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Unfazed by danger and power, Guatemalan cardinal keeps up fight for migrants and the poor
Read full article: Unfazed by danger and power, Guatemalan cardinal keeps up fight for migrants and the poorElevated by Pope Francis to the top hierarchy of the Catholic Church, Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini has kept up his unflinching focus on the poor, the Indigenous and the migrant in Central America.
Many Christian voters in US see immigration as a crisis. How to address it is where they differ.
Read full article: Many Christian voters in US see immigration as a crisis. How to address it is where they differ.Christian voters and faith leaders have long been in the frontlines of providing assistance to migrants.
Catholic bishops' president calls for better border management, continued care for immigrants
Read full article: Catholic bishops' president calls for better border management, continued care for immigrantsThe leader of the nation’s Catholic bishops weighed in on ongoing immigration issues during their spring meeting in Florida.
DeSantis recruiters eyed Catholic church for migrant flights that bishop calls 'reprehensible'
Read full article: DeSantis recruiters eyed Catholic church for migrant flights that bishop calls 'reprehensible'Mark Seitz, the Roman Catholic bishop of El Paso, Texas, tells The Associated Press that Florida Gov_ Ron DeSantis' flights of migrants from the Texas border to California are “reprehensible” and “not morally acceptable.”.
‘In the hands of God’: One Venezuelan family's journey to the US
Read full article: ‘In the hands of God’: One Venezuelan family's journey to the USWhen Luis López was lost in Panama's Darien Gap last year with his pregnant wife, their two children and her grandmother, he often knelt in the mud to beg God not to abandon them.
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In a moment of turmoil, US Catholic bishops meet virtually
Read full article: In a moment of turmoil, US Catholic bishops meet virtuallyFILE - In this Nov. 10, 2003 file photo, Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick, Archbishop of Washington, D.C., center, joins fellow clergy in prayer at the end of the opening session of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops meeting in Washington. McCarrick who was defrocked by Pope Francis in 2019 served as head of Catholic dioceses in Metuchen and Newark, New Jersey, and in Washington. “The shadow of the McCarrick report hangs over this meeting,” said John Gehring, Catholic program director at a Washington-based clergy network called Faith in Public Life. The report found that three decades of bishops, cardinals and popes dismissed or downplayed reports of McCarrick’s misconduct with young men. The bishops will discuss the McCarrick report twice Monday, first in a private session and later in a public livestream, according to the communications office of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.