Jesuits and other Catholic and Christian clergy were turned back by ICE when they tried to bring the Eucharist to detained immigrants in Broadview, Ill.
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After the government shutdown ends, will the U.S. be heading back to the future on health care?
Sister Mary Haddad, head of the Catholic Health Association, on the precarious state of U.S. health care—before and after the shutdown
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Zambia’s farmers face an uncertain future with climate change
In rural Zambia, subsistence farmers face complex questions with no easy answers and very little time. Drought fueled by climate change threatens smallholder farmers and the communities that depend on them for food.
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A Catholic health nonprofit in Harlem prepares for an ICE crackdown
“The fear has been very great in our community,” Lucia Aguilar, L.S.A.’s director of family support services, said. The agency offers online resources for people with irregular residency to prepare for an encounter with ICE. “We want our families to be ready for the worst-case scenario.”
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At Red Mass, Cardinal McElroy presses Supreme Court to restore hope
Practitioners of law have an opportunity to restore that lost trust and hope, Cardinal McElroy said. “No group in our society has a greater capacity to remold our political discourse. No group has a deeper calling to bring hope.”
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Trump vs. the Vatican at the UN general assembly
Despite the growing American threats to withdraw, Vatican officials still perceive the United Nations as a fundamental instrument of world peace and justice seeking.
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NYC choir performs at the Vatican for Pope Leo—in his own words
“It was truly a spiritual moment unlike anything I have experienced before,” Joey Chancey, the director of music for the Church of St. Paul the Apostle in New York City, said.
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As deportation terror mounts, Cardinal McElroy asks U.S. Catholics, ‘Who is your neighbor?’
Cardinal McElroy charged that the nation has been experiencing “a comprehensive governmental assault designed to produce fear and terror among millions of men and women” and to make life unbearable for undocumented immigrants.
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Global Catholic charity head brings the plight of the poor to the U.N.
Despite the year’s setbacks and geopolitical turmoil, there is still hope that the world community can address persisting challenges of poverty, armed conflict and climate change.
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Pope Leo, Elon Musk and the impact of extreme wealth
Pope Leo XIV got into a wee spat with the $434 billion man, Elon Musk, this week, to the extent that Mr. Musk was forced to resort to Scripture.