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“In spite of the borders and boundaries that exist, we see ourselves as one great Catholic community, and we are immensely grateful and honored that our universal pastor, Pope Francis, has chosen to come to our area,” Bishop Seitz said in a Jan. 18 statement. “We celebrate this great day for our brothers and sisters in Juarez.”

“It’s not about service, we should be out on the streets protesting,” Rev. Cean James, founding pastor of Grace Christian Fellowship Church in Philadelphia, said. “Given the lack of change in society since the death of Dr. King, a true revolution of values is needed. It should be a day of protest against injustice. We have been silent for a long time.”

“I think people on both sides would say that it’s gone well,” he says. “By no means do [adjuncts] feel like they have reached a level of parity,” he adds, “but they understand that the university has taken a real step in the right direction and want to continue to work with the union.”

Faculty Forward reports “deep misgivings about the future of higher education” among respondents.

Any move to broaden those whose feet are washed by the priest—taking the role of Jesus—could raise questions about ordination.

Faith organizations are focused on a longer-term goal: to make sure the impoverished city, where President Obama last weekend declared a state of emergency over its poisoned water, is never so neglected again.

“No child should be told that there is no room for them. The womb should not be the child’s tomb,” Archbishop Cupich told the crowd. “We just celebrated Christmas, the season that features the birth of a child, a season of new life and new beginning. A child, like no one else, creates and fosters hope in our world.”

“Puerto Rico’s debt comes from a combination of mismanagement, bad luck and its unique colonial status as neither a sovereign country nor a U.S. state,” wrote Archbishop Roberto Gonzalez Nieves of San Juan.

Several anti-Christian slogans in Hebrew were discovered scrawled along the walls of the Benedictine Dormition Abbey monastery and the neighboring Greek Orthodox seminary, both located on Mount Zion next to the walls of the Old City.

Catholic advocacy agencies quickly joined the pushback after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at the beginning of the year arrested immigrants, all Central American families, who were in the United States illegally.After a series of meetings with Homeland Security officials Jan. 11, Senate