“I’m very proud, personally, to see our church, you know, be on the side of those who suffer,” Cardinal Pierre said, adding that Pope Leo XIV agreed with the U.S. bishops’ support of migrants.
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Faith leaders hope bill will stop the loss of thousands of foreign-born clergy serving US communities
“Unless there is a change to current practice, our community is slowly being strangled,” said the Rev. Aaron Wessman, vicar general and director of formation for the Glenmary Home Missioners, a small Catholic order ministering in rural America.
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You shouldn’t buy a piece of a saint: Catholic Church denounces online sale of Carlo Acutis relics
With the upcoming canonization of its first millennial saint, the Catholic Church has turned to police in Italy to investigate the online sale of some purported relics of Carlo Acutis.
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Syrian refugee family that Pope Francis brought to Rome prays for him as they build new life
In 2016, the Zaheda flew to Italy from Lesbos on the pope’s plane. “He’s a gift from paradise,” Hasan Zaheda said on Sunday. “Pope Francis, a gift from our God, that God sent us to save us.”
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Diocese sues immigration agencies over rule change that could force thousands of foreign-born priests to leave
The Diocese of Paterson, N.J., argues that the change “will cause severe and substantial disruption to the lives and religious freedoms” of the priests as well as the hundreds of thousands of Catholics they serve.
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Meet the DJ priest bringing the Gospel to young people through electronic music
At a Halloween festival with some 30,000 partygoers, Father Peixoto re-mixed electronic dance beats with words from Pope Francis’ encyclical about protecting the environment. “The people are dancing with sentences from ‘Laudato Si’.’”
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The U.S. could lose thousands of foreign priests thanks to a green card processing change
It just got harder for foreign priests to stay in the U.S.
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When your parish is Sagrada Familia, tourism season can be rough
With tourism reaching or surpassing pre-pandemic levels across southern Europe this summer, iconic sacred sites struggle to find ways to accommodate both the faithful who come to pray and millions of increasingly secular visitors.
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As Biden heads to El Paso, meet the bishop working at the heart of the immigration crisis
The migration crisis roiling the borderlands is literally in the backyard Bishop Seitz, the new chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ migration committee.
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Thousands of baptisms presumed invalid due to one priest’s wording error
The Rev. Andres Arango’s error was in saying, “We baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,” when he should have begun the sentence by saying, “I baptize you.”