At the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, Vance said he wasn’t there to litigate “about who’s right and who’s wrong,” and credited Francis as one who “cares about the flock of Christians under his under his leadership.”
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Archbishop Gallagher on Trump’s negotiations with Putin, mass deportations and gutting of USAID
In an exclusive interview, Archbishop Gallagher says that if he met Donald Trump, he’d ask the president to “see behind the numbers to see the human stories that are represented by these illegal migrants in the United States today.”
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Archbishop Wenski says deporting Haitians would be ‘unconscionable’ as TPS deadline looms
“Basically Haiti is a house on fire, and you can’t push people back into a burning house,” Archbishop Wenski said. “We have to deal with the fire and create conditions for people to go back home.”
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Archbishop Gallagher on Pope Francis’ health, JD Vance’s Munich speech and Trump’s Gaza plans
In Part I of this exclusive interview with Gerard O’Connell, the Vatican’s foreign minister says speculation about the pope’s resignation is “at this time, not appropriate, and it’s certainly not in the cards.”
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Trump claims white Afrikaners are victims of persecution. Christian leaders in South Africa say no.
President Donald Trump said that he would hold South Africa accountable for rights violations against white Afrikaners, a group of people he described as “innocent disfavored minority farmers.
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4 areas where Trump and Catholics might find common ground on immigration—in principle
Areas for possible dialogue between the church and the Trump administration included anti-human-trafficking efforts, the status of Dreamers and the right of a nation to control its borders.
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Trump vs. Zelensky: How the U.S. is moving away from Ukraine and toward Putin’s Russia
The White House began an effort to restore relations with Russia as President Trump repeats Russia’s narrative and talking points about the origins of the war on Ukraine.
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UK court backs Vatican in refusing to say London financier acted in ‘good faith’ in property deal
A British court backed a Vatican tribunal’s ruling that financier Raffaele Mancione defrauded the Holy See of tens of millions of euros related to a London property.
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JD Vance shines global spotlight on case of British army vet prosecuted for silent prayer outside abortion clinic
British army veteran Adam Smith-Connor, recently converted to the Catholic faith, said he was “grateful” that Vance raised his case when he warned Europe about retreating from freedom.
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Report: How Jesuit Refugee Service is responding to the Trump foreign aid freeze
Halting the work of U.S.A.I.D. “will kill millions of people and condemn hundreds of millions more to lives of dehumanizing poverty.”