“This is not policy, it is punishment, and it can only result in cruel and arbitrary outcomes.”
Bishops
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Catholic bishops quietly criticized Trump’s budget. But they need to get their message out.
The USCCB wrote a letter to Congress on May 20 mildly refuting certain aspects of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill.
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Archbishop Weisenburger: Immigrants are—and always have been—the lifeblood of America.
Who are we as a country if we are unable to recognize the same aspirations demonstrated by today’s immigrants that once defined the immigrants of generations gone by?
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Weekly Dispatch
Bishops condemn El Salvador’s ‘international prison’ where Trump is sending migrants
”Do not collaborate in the fight against migrants by the great colonizing countries.”
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ betrays the poor. The church must oppose it.
The church and the bishops of the United States should lead the way in speaking against this bill and calling on Catholics to work for its defeat, writes Archbishop John C. Wester of Sante Fe.
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What the role of bishop means to Pope Leo (and to St. Augustine)
Pope Leo’s quotation of Augustine after his election contains within it an important theological point about the nature of the episcopacy. The quotation signals Leo XIV’s approach to his role as bishop of Rome.
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Pope Leo XIV, in first U.S. appointment, names San Diego’s new bishop
Pope Leo XIV has appointed Auxiliary Bishop Michael M. Pham of San Diego to head the diocese.
Posted inFaith, The Weekly Dispatch
Pope Francis created cardinals from the ‘peripheries.’ Is that how we got Pope Leo XIV?
The late pope’s attention to geographic detail led to what was described as the most diverse conclave in the history of the church.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Pope Francis’ last U.S. appointments reflect on what it means to be ‘a Francis bishop’
Just about two weeks before he died, Francis announced that Archbishop-elect McKnight will be the next archbishop of Kansas City, Mo., and that Bishop Lewandowski will become the next bishop of Providence, R.I.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The U.S. bishops have stopped resettling refugees in the Trump era. What does the future hold?
To stop the important work of refugee resettlement is to lose part of the church’s identity in the United States.