Congress has until March 5 to pass legislation to help immigrants who are currently shielded from deportation by the program.
According to Catholic social tradition, paying taxes is part of the way Catholic citizens contribute to the common good.
The Declaration of Rome appealed “to leaders of the world’s great religions to inform and mobilize members of every faith to join in a global movement to protect the world’s children.”
“We absolutely welcome the pope’s strong statement on this issue; we welcome the moral clarity and the leadership he is showing.”
Catholics are following the general public in a broader acceptance of cremation.
Catholics are called to act and to equip ourselves with truth-telling tools to transform the polemics of immigration into a grace-filled response to human suffering.
Among those Catholics who choose to leave the church, 74 percent do so between the ages of 10 and 20. And 87 percent of them say that it is for good.